Grass is greener on the other side
He said sz gives you a divergent thinking and insight which would help with his philosophy
This was when I was lacking in insight into reality.
I feel being firm footed in reality is an advantage to everything, but it was cool to be appreciated like that. Thoughts?
Be careful what you wish for.
Meds is what’s truly given me insight
By slowing down my thinking, I have attained an insight. It’s like meditation.
But yeah I had to go through the hell of the mind first before I attempted to find the true core
When he said this to me, I was not ready to consider myself “insightful”
But I’ve made strides toward maturation and insight faster than your average normie
A shaman is a sz who has healed himself…ppl often times say sz is shamanism, but no he/she has had to heal/ treat themselves first
I want to kick this guy in the balls, and then tell him how lucky I think he is.
Well I studied philosophy both before, during, and after my episodes. I don’t know. Florid psychosis definitely gives you a divergent way of thinking, and includes bizarre experiences. But, sheer divergence is not a quality in itself, I think.
I do think there are some loose connections between some issues sometimes experienced during episodes and some philosophical topics. Derealization can be seen as the lived counterpart of the philosophical problem of solipsism, the philosophical ‘problem of other minds’ can feature as a lived experience in delusions of thinking/feeling that everyone else is an automaton/robot/zombie/anything that lacks a conscious mind of its own, depersonalization may be seen as the lived experience of ‘the mind/body problem’.
Schizophrenic experiences can be of some interest to philosophers, in this way I think. If you’ve read a bit of (mostly analytic) philosophy, you’d often see all kind of thought experiments conducted to make a point. The status of thought experiments as a method of inquiry can be subject to some criticism though. Schizophrenic experiences such as those mentioned above, may at times serve the same point as hypothetical situations at times used by philosophers. I don’t think it is necessary to have lived them through for this though. The other side of the coin, I think, is that when philosophy is about real experience, although unusual in this case, it has the potential of understanding it. I do not think philosophy’s role is to give a causal explanation of things, so I don’t mean understanding in that sense. Rather, I think there is a potential to make our experiences a bit better understood to people who did not live them through by such means.
That was over my head
His theory fails 
In seriousness though, sz has given me some insight a normal may or may not possess, by causing me to search for answers …search for the true explanation of life…if there is such a thing…
I understand human consciousness very well for example, because I used to think everyone was a robot like you said…therefore I was on a quest to humanize consciousness and have succeeded in my endeavors…I think
Perhaps, I don’t know. I do believe one can easily get lost in philosophy. I think the root of it’s name is sometimes mistaken for the love of truth, instead of the love of wisdom. We all know that someone we think of as wise does not necessarily go about stating many facts, whether of a physical or metaphysical nature. Instead, it is someone that knows how to live well given his situation.
Perhaps yeah… Although there are ofcourse numerous people who do not fit that pattern, I read an article that documented a tendency to focus on abstract disciplines like philosophy , theoretical physics and mathematics in the prodromal phase to schizophrenia. The figure of the mad scientist… folklore, perhaps, but never a biologist…
i value my sz as a growing experience. the people that condemn us are at fault… forgive them for they know not what they do… or wipe boogers on thier precious cars and test their value system 