Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia (a.k.a. Egoic Collapse) is the pathological collapse of the Bodily Ego that occurs when a severely damaged ego makes a Connection to deeper layers of the psyche (i.e., Perinatal Realms) or some point in The Fabric.
Syncretic Terms
Egoic Collapse > Nadir Experience, Psychotic Mysticism, Schizophrenia
Egoic Explosion > Nadir Experience, Schizophrenia
Notes
Daniel Paul Schreber[1] provides a rather dramatic account of what can happen when Bodily Ego becomes permanently collapses, thereby exposing the Bodily Ego to content, uncontrolled, and pathological contact with The Fabric. Schreber was a paranoid schizophrenic who recounted his Connection Experiences and the information that was "downloaded" from The Fabric. His memoir is an interesting recounting of spiritual truth mixed with psychotic and harmful delusions. The delusions probably arise from his incredibly toxic upbringing experiences, and the toxic ideas he had absorbed into his mental space as a consequence of the violence and indoctrination he endured. Daniel was a victim of the Moritz Schreber childcare system, a system of Toxic Socialization and childhood torture that emphasized "Suppression, control, [and] total obedience...' even to the point of threatening and instilling fear in infants.[2]
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.[3] He cites the case of one Daniel Paul Schreber[4] 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.
Grof notes that Schizophrenia may be rooted in COEX Systems and faulty interpretations information gleaned from Connection Experience. "Basically, the difference between the experiences of mystics and schizophrenic patients does not seem to be primarily in the nature and content of the experience, but in the general attitude and approach toward them, and in the way in which they are integrated into everyday life:"[5]. These differences in attitude may be traced to traumas experienced during birth, or to extremely toxic experiences with the parents.
Grof also points to the influence of toxic Old Energy Archetypes in the ontogenesis of Schizophrenia "The phenomenology of BPM II contributes to the schizophrenic picture in terms of elements of the Last Judgment and of eternal damnation, visions of a meaningless and bizarre "cardboard" world, never-ending tortures in various versions of Hell, and other types of no-exit situations."[6]
Grof points to the collapse of the Bodily Ego, specifically the collapse of boundaries between the Bodily Ego deeper structures in the psyche (i.e., Perinatal Realms, The Fabric), as an important aspect of Schizophrenia. "The schizophrenic seems to be perceiving himself and the world in a distorted way under direct influence of the basic perinatal matrices, whereas the experience of the neurotic is influenced primarily by the COEX systems. In addition, the schizophrenic can be in direct touch with a whole gamut of transpersonal experiences."[7]
Footnotes
- ↑ Schreber, Daniel Paul. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. New York: NYRB Classics, 2000. https://amzn.to/2U8Se6Q.
- ↑ Schreber, Daniel Paul. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. New York: NYRB Classics, 2000. p. xvi. https://amzn.to/2U8Se6Q.
- ↑ Scharfstein, Ben-Ami. Mystical Experience. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973. p. 133
- ↑ Schreber, Daniel Paul. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. NYRB Classics, 2000. https://amzn.to/2U8Se6Q.
- ↑ Grof, Stanislav. “Theoretical and Empirical Basis of Transpersonal Psychology and Psychotherapy: Observations from LSD Research.” Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 5, no. 1 (June 1973): 15–53. p. 39.
- ↑ Grof, Stanislav. “Theoretical and Empirical Basis of Transpersonal Psychology and Psychotherapy: Observations from LSD Research.” Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 5, no. 1 (June 1973): 15–53. p. 40.
- ↑ Grof, Stanislav. “Theoretical and Empirical Basis of Transpersonal Psychology and Psychotherapy: Observations from LSD Research.” Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 5, no. 1 (June 1973): 15–53. p. 40.
