Brightness said:
I have on occasion seen auras but I mainly see other 'things' and hear things too. And no I'm not a scizophrenic - my GP assures me that I am one of the most level headed people he knows!
There was an intersting correlation I was always meaning to research further, but never got around to it. I used to work in the mental health area, and I know of quite a few 'relatives' of people with schizophrenia who were 'tuned into' hearing and seeing unexplainable things/events. Now comes the interesting bit - they were almost always 100% accurate
It made me think, could schizophrenia be the minds way of coping with such things - i.e. society has placed 'boundaries' on what is acceptable and not, so when a person experiences something that is unexplainable they basically 'turn themself crazy' because it does not make sense to them. However, the relatives have accepted that we don't have to live and think in this 'box' that society has built around us, therefor they are more receptive to such things. Even to this day we know very little about our brain - there is a huge amount of it that is 'unaccounted for' - but, surely it must be there for something?
The British culture doesn't like people stepping outside this 'box' and 'think for themself'. Perhaps because it is not so easy to 'govern' a self-thinker, but look at some other societies - i.e. people go off to the hills, live in a cave for a week, take hallucinagentics, and come back with their 'new found knowledge' to rule their people. They are seen as great leaders - in this country they would be put into psychiatric care
