god

If you are religious and believe in a god-devil dichotomy it’s a lot easier to have faith whereas a unitary approach – god is good and bad – is more difficult but, in my opinion, is closer to the absolute truth about god

by We

Christianity is not truly monotheistic whereas Hinduism is. The two god figures are god and devil which are two distinct opposites who wield power over human life. The many Hindu gods are all facets of the one god but good and bad deities are all part of the one god. Shiva – the destroyer and who Oppenheimer quoted at the test of the first nuclear bomb – is as much part of the divine as Brahma or Vishnu (the creator and preserver respectively).

The devil seems as plenipotent as god over human life but the bad stuff is ascribed to it and god is perceived as good. This divided interpretation of the divine allows believers to love god without truly knowing god’s proclivity for good and bad. Having faith that god is good is easier than believing in a higher being which does moral right and wrong.

In my personal creed it’s stupid to love or hate god. It’s far too complex to be labeled or judged by something as basic as a human consciousness. However I bow to the occasional stupidity so I frequently hate god even though it might sometimes seem like god is on my side. We have a complex relationship.

The truth is there’s no duality. It’s not the absolute truth but it’s the closest I know. I’ve not always hated god. For most of my life I didn’t believe it existed.

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

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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.

Curbing an immoral trend: schizophrenia is normal

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The medical model of mental illness would tell you different so curb their perspective. It is immoral to judge human psychodiversity as abnormal or unnatural using falsely applied scientific techniques.

The truth is schizophrenics are normal and essential. If you think different you’re wrong. They’re part of human psychodiversity which is a complicated and wide spectrum.

Schizophrenics are the people who get to know god exists from personal experience. Other people believe or don’t believe the religious dogma they’re taught but those who experience god throughout human history would today be diagnosed as psychotic and schizophrenic thanks to modern psychiatry.

I don’t know why god allows this travesty to keep going. I don’t. I wouldn’t. You shouldn’t either.

What’s your stream of consciousness and free will feel like?

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Do you hear a conversation in your head or just a listener and a speaker?

What’s your experience of control like?: is it your head, your heart, what the voice says or what the listener chooses?

These are fascinating questions which lack a scientific answer except for the pseudoscientific tripe of psychiatry.

My experience is conversation and community if not consensus. It’s definitely not unitary or singular. Some times I have no control and will becomes almost automatic rather than choice or free will.

Where does your will come from? My idea is the corpus callosum which connects the two hemispheres of the brain is part of the seat of consciousness, the Cartesian theatre perhaps? But there’s also something else beyond the organic biology. There’s god/s influence too.