Psychotic Mysticism

• Connection
  • Physical Unit
  • Connection
  • Toxic Socialization
  • Disconnection
  • Healing
  • Authentic Spirituality
  • The Work
  • The System
• Connection Framework
  • Awakening
    • Water Glass Metaphor
  • Accountability
  • Atonement
  • Alignment
    • Alignment Rule Set
    • Steering Emotions
    • Creation Template
  • Activation
  • Ascension
• Connection Practice
• Connection Appliance
  • TOSAS
• Connection Supplement
• Connection Manual
• Connection Event
  • Connection Type
  • Connection Challenge
• Connection Outcome
• Connection Pathology
  • Double N Mysticism
  • Flooding
  • Egoic Bloating
  • Egoic Explosion
  • Egoic Deflation
  • Egoic Collapse

Psychotic Mysticism is a syncretic term for Nadir Experience used by Ben Scharfstein The terms refers to a Connection Experience with Egoic Collapse that shades into classic psychosis and Schizophrenia.

Syncretic Terms

Nadir Experience > Dark Night of the Soul, Death, Flooding, Psychotic Mysticism, Spiritual Emergency

Notes

Psychotic mysticism occurs as a consequence of psychological and emotional damage to the Bodily Ego. Stress may trigger, and Old Energy Archetypes may contribute to the onset and exacerbate the experience.

Scharfstein carries on an interesting discussion of "psychotic mysticism" where he suggests that a mystical psychosis involves "the sense of drastic separation from everything....the loss of oneself in fusion with other people and things...and...fear and guilt that acquire a hallucinatory presence. He cites the case of one Daniel Paul Schreber who describe a nervous illness in which he had "nerve contact" with God, and that there were nerve-filaments that connected all other souls in the universe to each other, and that his filaments were poisoned and that "diseased nervous system." Essentially, Schreber is describing a diseased connection.

Further Reading

Sharp, Michael (2013). Ego Explosion. http://www.michaelsharp.org/ego-explosion/