It's a disease if it hurts yourself. If you have bad anxiety and can't function properly in social settings, you have a disease. It's malicious if the disease you carry hurts others. Take for example, the televangelist who knows he is selling a lie but does so because the money is so good.
I'm open to the idea, the experiences of epileptics and the like were and are highly regarded as genuine in many cultures, rather than the results of illness. I'd agree that insanity is mostly subjective; sometimes I feel the intoxicated dance of the shaman comes closest of anything to my feelings toward the cosmos
all my epileptic experiences were and still are quite real at least in my head they certainly are http://forum.grasscity.com/spirituality-philosophy/909899-tls-mystical-experience.html
do you ever ride the line between the 2? find a bit of balance between them? or does that just not come?
Truth^ DD-I often think that if I had the opportunity one day, I'd just like to let it go full-blown...just to see where I 'get' with it...only 'I' might not come back...hah!
haha... I KNOW only one way to find out....vvvery tempting...I keep finding out ...like a trail of cookie crumbs leading to the rabbit hole... ..and yes it is....like I said..not ready to give up teaching...