> shift away from social norms too far and you will turn schizo. this is literally the whole entire point, anon: theia mania.  all of them talked about it. they never shut up about it, even today. jung, plato, dionysus, odin, all of these are hugely thematic with theia mania in mind. you're not supposed to "stay sane". that's exactly the point. > straddle parallel realities yeah, the conscious and the semi-conscious. the problem is maintain lucidity when you're constantly bouncing back and forth between the local ego and the higher self (universal consciousness). not everyone can manage that. it's very helpful to be instructed properly before you reach the age of full brain development so you can properly integrate the archetypes and exert them when necessary to mask, to defend, to bind and even integrate what's needed. the reason no one can really teach this with reliability anymore is because the retards kept killing all the shamans. they didn't understand that consciousness wasn't harming anyone and that being so selfish harms us all. this is one of the big losses of civilization, the coherence of consciousness, not whatever technologies or infrastructure they may have had.
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