Subject: schizophrenia spiritsPath: lobby!ngtf-m01.news.aol.com!ngpeer.news.aol.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mailFrom: whatnext@mail.com (whatnext)Newsgroups: alt.magick,alt.support.schizophrenia,alt.drugs.psychedelicsDate: 25 May 2003 21:01:26 -0700Organization: http://groups.google.com/Lines: 73Message-ID: <99268733.0305252001.1d516e43@posting.google.com>NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.215.185.189Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Trace: posting.google.com 1053921686 17159 127.0.0.1 (26 May 2003 04:01:26 GMT)X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.comNNTP-Posting-Date: 26 May 2003 04:01:26 GMTXref: lobby alt.magick:401422 alt.support.schizophrenia:99414 alt.drugs.psychedelics:383150http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=spirits&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_ugroup=alt.support.schizophrenia&lr=&num=100&hl=ena google search of alt.support.schizophrenia and "spirits" got 1000hits.The link probably won't work so I'll just get to my point. I thinkschizos are having metaphysical experiences that have gone out ofcontrol. Regaining of sanity would then entail mastering metaphysics.I am speaking these words cause I am schizo and I am giving you mytheory. Its important for magicians cause most "magi"cians arefailures at evocation whereas the average schizo can conjure justabout any spirit (but they unfortunately, they CAN'T banish them onceevoked). Just speaking from my own experience, I think that schizosare "evolving beyond their means" that is, the ego is taking on atransformation that the current status of ego (i.e., home sapienssapiens) is unable to complete.This isn't to say that schizos are supermen in the making. Many peoplehave metaphysical experiences that they are able to integrate intotheir lives in a healthy way. These people often grow up to become ourmimes, our visionarymad poets, psychics, etcetc.  Yes, that's right Iam talking about the X Men.In the order of things, the X mutated super spychics are the highestof our type of humanity. Exactly Nietzsche's vision of the overman.Somewhere lower down on the ladder of evolution sits the schizo. DNA'scareless attempt at forcing evolution through necessity (i.e., theschizop has to learn to adapt given the symptomolgy of schizophrenia).For instance, i was reading in the 2002 Guinness Book of World Recordsthat there is a mutation that causes people to be as hairy as wolfmenor werewolves. Now, you know that nature is keeping this diseasebecause there might be another ice age. Similarly, nature keeps onturning out schizos just in case the normal Xmen overman mutations gobad and we need another source of spychics.Personally, I don't think nature needs a backup to the overallmutation of man to overman. I have observed people mutating all aroundme the normal way (through the radiation from TV's and microwaves ofcourse). I'm pretty sure the DNA can do just fine without the 1%schizophrenia population of the world.But nature is greedy for her children of the stars and she insists onkeeping the schizos.Now, you have gone deep into this post and I warn you the next fewparagraphs will not in any way resemble the coherence of the first fewparagraphs... okay, so onward, I would like now to talk about themovie The Matrix. This Neo anomally is supposedly the teleos of ourhuman evolution. It says it in the book of Revelations where there isanother virgin birth at the end of times. So someone is in the works(the loins that is). Phil Dick says its the Holy Ghost in hisExegesis. At any rate, someone at the end of time is coming to justifythe whole of time. So back to my schizophrenia theory, what if naturereally squirt out an overman, but then also spit out a backup schizooverman. the untermensch one might say. This sounds a lot like theBruce willis movie "Unbrakeable". I don't know, say that in SupermanI, that Superman arrived at the same time as Bizaro Superman. See, howyou can easily construct a plot out of this.     The schizaro Overman vs. thegoody-goody-apple-pie-america-shiny-teeth-obvious-Taurus OvermanSo maybe, instead of Nature getting her children of eternity she endsup with a dead Superman....of course, that's not how the movie isgoing to work out. In reality, Superman will kill the spirit ofgravity (which I am assuming here to be schizophrenia)....one final thought. Look at all of history. How terrible. All to makeNEO. and think of all the failure Neo's. The millions that tried to besomething good and failed. Now think of all the schizos. They're noteven supposed to be overpeople. they're just behind the scenes asbackups. In other words, the actors get all the glory, the stuntmen doall the work, and the schizos aren't even mentioned cause they're onlybackup stuntmen. Now, if the main stuntman breaks his leg or somethingand you somehow get filmed, THEN your name would get in the credits.But that is a long shot for our unsung un-heroes.