Did god stop communicating after Muhammad or was it powerful men who suppressed and persecuted those who got to know god exists

In the UK and the Western world psychiatry took over the persecution from Christianity. In Christian history a few schizophrenics escaped the persecution and became saints. For the lucky ones their experience of god/s and its message – a psychotic delusion in modern psychiatric terms – fitted in with the dogma of the Church. The rest were persecuted as witches and heretics till the persecution mutated to the medical model of mental health. Now they’re all diagnosed as schizophrenics and their spiritual experiences are thought of as a meaningless symptom of a malfunctioning brain.

Muhammad is the last person who experienced god and created a major belief system which stood the test of time. I feel confident saying he would consider modern Islam to be sacrilege of his belief and the message of god/s he divined. That doesn’t matter though. The bizarre idea that Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha or any other historically and religiously important schizophrenic whose essential nature created the religious beliefs people hold today are the last of their kind is commonly held amongst religious believers.

Is that really the truth of god/s? Or are Job Marley and perhaps even L. Ron Hubbard people of our times who also experienced god in their lives? I mean actually felt through personal experience rather than believed through faith or acceptance of religious dogma.

There’s the delivery of a gift in this but for most of us it’s a curse. Powerful hegemonies often persecute those who are too different and psychiatry is no exception. In fact it dresses persecution in scientific terms but there’s little true science in the persecution.

God doesn’t bless every schizophrenic but their existence is central to the evolution of humankind and civilisation. Their psychodiversity is still undefended today but their value remains regardless of the oppression. John Nash, Gandhi and Van Gogh are three essential male schizophrenics who made an essential contribution which was recognised by future generations but many female schizophrenics weren’t acknowledged for their contributions though I know they did.

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