Cool quote

[Crow]

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. - Joseph Campbell

 

[Deleted member 33052]

I love that!

 

[8888]

Awesome!

 

[Lionheart]

Very true...I admire Joseph Campbell and would like to read more of his works of which I have only been exposed to a little.....is he a "depth psychologist"? He certainly has the intelligence for it.

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

This quote is profound and touches a really deep chord within, as it always makes me think of me and my sister. We both endured sexual abuse at an early age from the same person. She spoke up and tried to tell our parents, but was called a liar, accused of making it happen, and sent straight to a psych hospital who determined she had a chemical imbalance, started her on several meds, and eventually did shock therapy treatments and remained hospitalized for a long, long time.

She never returned home after that, but has gone on to lead somewhat of a "normal" life, as defined by a sick society. She occasionally suffers from hearing voices and having hallucinations, all being scary as f*ck. She still takes a bunch of meds to keep it all in check. After witnessing all of that, I never spoke up about the abuse out of fear of being put through the same thing. I strongly feel she would have had a totally different life experience had she not been tossed into the psychiatry scene as a result of simply trying to be heard and helped, having her parents side with doctors instead of believing their own child. The cycle of abuse continued for many years after, for both of us.

I don't hear voices, other than my own speaking my thoughts and interpretations - or singers of songs, as I do most of my thinking through music it seems - but I do have the pleasure of frequently seeing many beautiful things (colors, shapes, animals, faces, places, motions, etc.) when I close my eyes. Not every single time, but rather often. It rips my heart out and keeps me wishing that my sister, and so many others, could see the beauty, too, rather than just the scary shit, be it with eyes wide open or closed. I also wish I could project those visions onto a wall when they arrive to share with others. I used to have to pay good money to see such cool shit back in the day, lol, now it just arrives naturally, and for that I'm grateful.

 

[420kitty]

I like how you really have to think about that quote, and the message it entails. Here's an African proverb I love: The axe forgets what the tree remembers.

 

[Lionheart]

"In the end the love you take, is equal to the love you make."