This might be of interest to these groups since it presents some evidence that many past religious figures were mentally ill at times.
On Jun 10, 2019, Mike_Duffy wrote
(in article<e06i7qr9v8vu$.9rlvlbgkohd1.dlg@40tude.net>):
On Sun, 09 Jun 2019 22:59:22 -0230, David Dalton wrote:
This might be of interest to these groups since it presents some evidence that many past religious figures were mentally ill at times.
David, there are a lot of people who are not in any way religious to speak of who at one time or another find themselves outside of their optimal mental performance envelope.
For example, most of us at some times during life become depressed. Usually, we do not seek professional help. We opt instead to simply use friends as a sounding board and re-arrange our priorities to the point where we can find a way to go forward.
Sometimes, we might be embarassed to approach friends, and instead use the anonymity of an Internet pseudonym. If you look closely, a lot of people posting here meet the criteria of mental illness.
I said that many religious figures were mentally ill at times, not that everyone who is mentally ill is a religious figure.
On Sun, 09 Jun 2019 22:59:22 -0230, David Dalton wrote:
This might be of interest to these groups since it presents some evidence that many past religious figures were mentally ill at times.
David, there are a lot of people who are not in any way religious to speak
of who at one time or another find themselves outside of their optimal
mental performance envelope.
For example, most of us at some times during life become depressed.
Usually, we do not seek professional help. We opt instead to simply use friends as a sounding board and re-arrange our priorities to the point
where we can find a way to go forward.
Sometimes, we might be embarassed to approach friends, and instead use the anonymity of an Internet pseudonym. If you look closely, a lot of people posting here meet the criteria of mental illness.
This might be of interest to these groups since it presents some evidence that many past religious figures were mentally ill at times.
On my Salmon on the Thorns website, http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html , I document significant events and patterns in my mood cycles since 1991 and compare them to those of some past figures. One key feature of my cycles is an initial waning crescent mystic manic episode that culminated in a sun stare, naked thorn hill climb, and blue rose vision, in early September, 1991. Then from 1992 to 1994 I had four waxing gibbous moon trials, and three of them were followed 5.5 lunar months later by waning crescent hypomanias. In early 1996 low/wilderness years began, and they are not over yet, though while I am on medication they are not too low except in terms of creativity. And on that website I present some evidence that I am similar to Taliesin, Amergin, Lleu, Fintan, Myrddin, Adonis, Dionysus, the Havamal 138--141 composer, Quetzalcoatl, Glooskap, the Iowa Dakota Salmon youth, Rama, Krishna, Buddha, the Turquoise Bee, Jacob, Moses, and Jesus, which implies that they were similar to one another.
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