Eva Ouwehand
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Religious and Spiritual Experiences & the Bipolar Disorder
Eva Ouwehand, M. Theol. Hospital chaplain Altrecht Mental Health Care, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Research on religious and spiritual experiences and bipolar disorder, Groningen University, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies.
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This video is about religious experience and bipolar disorder
It shows the results of a research project at Groningen University in the Netherlands.
People with bipolar disorder can have experiences they view as religious or spiritual. Such experiences can make a strong impression on them. They usually occur during mania.
During mania, people experience the presence of God for example, or the presence of a divine reality. Sometimes they feel strongly co...
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Religieuze en Spirituele Ervaringen & de Bipolaire Stoornis
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  • @user-vk4mm9so7l
    @user-vk4mm9so7l День назад

    I used to be bipolar when i was younger. It went away when i was staying in a motel while i was homeless. The problem with bipolar people is that thier spoiled and get upset when they dont get what they want.

  • @AllfaxCreation
    @AllfaxCreation 11 дней назад

    its all experience, even whem u sleep... Yest a lot more horrifing experience when u wake up" to the real #nightmare Circus

  • @kutay8421
    @kutay8421 Месяц назад

    When the 'intense phase' wears off , you are left alone with logic and reason to cover up the mess mania put forth in front of you. You never suspect it in 'the phase', but always after it. Spiritual awakening some do say huh, what if you live in a Muslim hometown as I do, and become subject to 5 times prayer, festival of sacrifice, and believing the arabic Quran and jihadist Mohammed etc. Would you still consider it as a gift from god ('Allah!') or would you consider yourself lucky for getting over it with little scrathes as possible ? If it was God directing me then where the hell he disappeared! Does he have a prepaid phone, or to visit all the 'spiritually gifted' accross all universes thee is on a strict schedule? Then why do I feel abandoned or even deceived every time!! First things first, treat it as a bio-chemistry. After then you may cover up your philosophical, theological, existensial or even imaginary queries around it as subsidiaries. But reality is, you have a situation which is permanent and beyond your n-dimensional limits to grasp and control. I don't advise pharma-medical care first hand because I have bad experiences over it (age 40) but Just to warn you Pinocchio. Even this beautiful video is misleading.

  • @ABRASILERA17
    @ABRASILERA17 Месяц назад

    TWO TRUTHS CAN EXIST WE LIVE IN A MENTALLY ILL GAME THAT MAKES US AND BLAMES US FOR COPING WITH THE LACK OF LIGHT, TRUTH ANS LOVE THAT WE ARE ATTUNED TO

  • @ABRASILERA17
    @ABRASILERA17 Месяц назад

    Mania was one of the greatest gifts of truth and empathy and intelligence that totally enhanced me permanently

  • @Christ144k
    @Christ144k 2 месяца назад

    I thought I was LITERALLY Jesus’s little brother. Sent here only because “if Christ had to come, I have to come to” my true home was heaven and I was sent here to suffer the same persecution as Christ just without the death and resurrection part. This is just one of the many personalities I develop during mania

    • @karenackerman7751
      @karenackerman7751 10 дней назад

      Well good news is Christ lives in you and you are 1 with Christ so you are in fact Christ! We all are!

  • @ejenkins4711
    @ejenkins4711 2 месяца назад

    Drop disorder take up reordering c

  • @MengzisDisciple
    @MengzisDisciple 2 месяца назад

    Same hormones involved with schizophrenia. Should not be deceived into thinking the "spirit" who are connecting with is "good"---just ask the schizo when the voice they thought was God is now telling them to kill their parents, or themselves. To dismiss the connection here with Bi-Polarism and mania/depression is just deceiving yourself. Serotonin/Noradenaline/Oxytocin/DMT are hormones associated with both Bi-Polar and schizophrenia. The difference is just in matters of degree (and damage to the insula or amygdala systems)--why if Bi-Polar you shouldn't mess with hallucinogens or marijuana (both which damper the amygdala system--cortisol and dopamine). Although not science...yet. The insula system is definitely associated with sleep cycles and DMT (where serotonin creates melatonin). Add in noradrenaline (which is responsible for audio hallucinations) and you have all the ingredients to create dreams (or nightmares)--which my guess is another aspect of the insula system, as normally it creates dreams/nightmares to relieve stress/anxiety. So creating manic episodes in response to stressful/anxious events. But then what do I know...I'm just a monkey.

  • @TheRomanEmpire
    @TheRomanEmpire 2 месяца назад

    I’m so glad someone made a study on this.

  • @titusandrew946
    @titusandrew946 3 месяца назад

    This lead me into leading a church I had planted. Where I had the worst episode id ever had my 2nd year of leading this church. I did not have any diagnosis at the time, and was treated as tho I had demons.

  • @amyg4549
    @amyg4549 3 месяца назад

    In mania, I become obsessed with spirituality. All I want to do is study and read about ALL the religions. I’m very interested in the mystic traditions associated with different religions. I’ve seen spirits, I’ve seen dark entities. When I go into depression, I still hold the belief that the divine is still here, it’s all just part of the cycle. I carry my rituals into depression as well, as meditation and prayer can be done, even when you can’t get out of bed.

  • @stonergene
    @stonergene 4 месяца назад

    I had my first episode 3 months ago and had been on medication for depression for a few years prior. A lot of what happened to me has already been said in the comments. I felt the rise and the eventual crash. I kept it to myself for a week then reached out to a few people with mixed reactions. I think the most important thing that I did was NOT go to the internet for answers or validations. In fact, this is the first time since then that I’ve searched for any correlation between 2 from a medical perspective. It’s never mattered to me. Some people might say that it’s all in my head (mental), but what about what I felt in my heart and soul?That being said… I embraced it. It’s now a part of who I am. No one can conceptualize the amount of love and warmth I felt when it happened. I felt like a ton of bricks and been lifted off me and my soul had been wiped clean. I still take medication but I’ve cut out a lot of my bad habits and started reading the Bible, chasing that feeling so to speak. For the first time in my life, I’ve been able to live in the moment and live day by day without thinking of the past or future. I’ve never had this much peace, even with previously being on meds. I’ve been able to let go of a lot of anger, manage anxiety in a matter of seconds, and I have no fear.

  • @RK79379
    @RK79379 5 месяцев назад

    Yes. 🥹 You've described my experience perfectly. Thank you for not making 'us' sound completely delusional. It is an incredibly isolating "disorder," so it's really nice to be 'heard' for once.

  • @MeghanBean
    @MeghanBean 5 месяцев назад

    This is very validating..

  • @Dr.JudeAEMasonMD
    @Dr.JudeAEMasonMD 5 месяцев назад

    💯 it’s the best gift wrapped in the veil of a curse.

  • @janaeclarke136
    @janaeclarke136 6 месяцев назад

    Please help me

  • @Jeff-cr6sp
    @Jeff-cr6sp 7 месяцев назад

    I believed i was a prophet up until i was medicated.i was really happy during that time now god was speaking to me and showing me things now I question it all

    • @pg5420
      @pg5420 5 месяцев назад

      Yup been there a few times. When my heightened spiritual state(or hypomania) crosses over into full blown grandiose mode (im some famous mystic/religious figure) then the nastier delusions appear. Guess simple sleep loss and the inevitable nutrient deficiencies are to blame, and burnout. Cant help but wonder what a person in this state could achieve if guided through mania and brought down with the right medications/preparations. If the spirituality questing where appropriately tempered. Traditionally, in terms of at least a few thousand years, opiates would most likely have been the most effective brake for mania. When manic I long for a community, some newly formed religious order, where space can be held for a person undergoing the revelatory state, to listen to the wisdom and truth that emerges from the fountainhead, the human voice connecting the planes like an antenna to heaven. Then I'll sleep at some point and wonder what happened to the last month or two and where it all went wrong. Alcohol and weed have traditionally been my downfalls in the 26 years since my first episode. Sullying an energy that could be potentially be tamed, to somehow be put to pofound but humble use instead of ending broken down and alone. Possible, but takes discipline. Enough years of suffering till you change your ways is a good way out if your lucky. Bipolar and addictions are no joke. Takes skill to handle fire is suppose! Noble work though, life is hard enough without having spiritual lasers beam out your eyes every few years.

  • @jeanie111
    @jeanie111 7 месяцев назад

    🎯

  • @travisanderson9718
    @travisanderson9718 7 месяцев назад

    New discovery in Anthropology! As it turns out, we inherited Bipolar from the Denisovan! THEY are not with us anymore. They went extinct, only a few thousand years ago. We inherited an ADVANCED artistic instinctual function that WE, Homo Sapiens, added to our primal instinctual function. As it turns out, the Denisovan were more artistically advanced THEN, than Homo Sapiens were. Bipolar is the instinctual function struggle...between TWO distinct human groups. One instinctual function that is artistic and creative.... from the Denisovan... And one instinctual function from our root group that is prima. The inheritance was found in our EPAS1 gene. As it turns out, .... Homo Sapiens inherited two other things from the Denisovan. Our ability to adapt to high altitudes and the ability to adapt to cold weather. What this information means is that the Denisovan were the ones responsible for gifting us with the understandings of geology. They lived through the Pleistocene long enough to have those adaptations. High altitude and cold weather means that they were the human group that developed the relationship between fire and rocks. Ultimately, without our relationship with lithics... Humans don't develop. It's what humans have done with rocks....how we have survived. This creative function with rocks got passed on TO Homo Sapien, FROM the Denisovan and we've had a bipolar, mental health condition since their extinction. We inherited an artistic instinctual function from a human group that had a HIGHER capacity than Homo Sapien. Genetically, .... like downloading software from another human group that our ROOT hard drives weren't ready for.

  • @danielfuentes6055
    @danielfuentes6055 9 месяцев назад

    Another Bipolar here! all my experiences checks with all expressed in this video. to my fellow friends, you are not alone.

  • @thecatalystoflove
    @thecatalystoflove 9 месяцев назад

    The spirituality part is almost always talked out of us by some innocent bystander who doesn't know what's going on! If you are an important mission from God, please help yourself to remember that we are all children of God for we are not thousands of years old as as we age remind yourselves that we are one with God souly by the consciousness we have within and if you are on the level of playing field that I am in, I would like to welcome you to mania and what we call our mission to God to NEVER BACK DOWN! GOD BLESS AMEN!

  • @westcoastsands
    @westcoastsands 9 месяцев назад

    I experience Bipolar 1 (formally diagnosed 5 years ago) and when I was in a mania, I felt the veil to the spiritual world was thin. Meaning, I felt and experienced that I could communicate to those on the other side and the other side could communicate with me (for those in my life who've passed on). It was, what my counselor called, a human having an extraordinary human experience or out-of-the-ordinary human experience which helped me to feel accepted and heard in that moment. This video also affirmed this for me and reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend about being closer to the spiritual world when we are in mania.

    • @RK79379
      @RK79379 5 месяцев назад

      You're not alone! It's so great to read that someone else is experiencing the same things as me. I have been experiencing the what I perceive to be a connection to 'the other side,' too. You used the word "affirmed." I have been seeking affirmation/validation.. only in hopes that someone could relate.. and tell me that I'm not crazy. Videos like this and comments like yours are SO encouraging. Good luck on your journey to self-discovery.

  • @SpiritMan00
    @SpiritMan00 9 месяцев назад

    Its been 6 years being diagnosed with mental illness, first it was psychosis, then schizophrenia then now bipolar. I thought I heard Gods voice telling me I was St Michael the archangel and also the devils intentions. It was very spiritual. Hence why I blame sin for the cause of my bipolar and illness. Its sin that kills everything in my opinion, if you don't get right with Jesus you're going to suffer. I had a recent relapse and went back into hospital. I thought I was going to hell with all the supernatural occurances. Right now I think it was another episode which is not real but real in the spirit realm.

  • @stephanieh5478
    @stephanieh5478 10 месяцев назад

    I’ve never felt this, my mania is a feeling of overstimulation and anxiety. I view my experiences as my moments to organize my trauma, I’m hopeful to be able to do so.

    • @66lordez50
      @66lordez50 6 месяцев назад

      you probably have bipolar 1 , bipolar 1 mania is more severe than bipolar 2

  • @energybender
    @energybender 11 месяцев назад

    The synchronicities are Real. There is definitely something divine about mania. It is not imagined, it is not over excitement or delusion. I have had 3 manic episodes, I was not sure the first 2 times, I am very sure now. There is some type of entanglement, some type of law of attraction thing going on.

    • @marcieannedriscoll3086
      @marcieannedriscoll3086 9 месяцев назад

      Completely agree 💯

    • @sagejr9295
      @sagejr9295 7 месяцев назад

      I agree from personal experience as well. There is a deep revealing of the nature of reality and God that is simply glossed over as a psychiatric episode

    • @timothyw815
      @timothyw815 6 месяцев назад

      I remember driving while truly manic for the first time, and every little thing seemed to fit together and make perfect sense. Like understanding the minute detail of everything on an external level. I was taking anti-depressants and still smoked weed at the time, so mostly wrote it off. Something undeniable about that experience though.

    • @Dr.JudeAEMasonMD
      @Dr.JudeAEMasonMD 5 месяцев назад

      💯 It’s the best/worst gift ever.

    • @RK79379
      @RK79379 5 месяцев назад

      Same here. The third 'episode' is when everything became more clear to me than ever before. The first one was frightening. 'Synchronicities' ARE real. Spirits are guiding us.

  • @decoded777
    @decoded777 11 месяцев назад

    Not a good video

  • @decoded777
    @decoded777 11 месяцев назад

    Turns out all prophets are bipolar. Faint line btw mental illness and spirituality

  • @fernrivas
    @fernrivas 11 месяцев назад

    Excellent analysis. So balanced and helpful!! Totally agree

  • @iamthefiremanjj
    @iamthefiremanjj Год назад

    How dare them label bipolar and the truth of God as bipolar . What a joke it’s the exact same experience as taking LSD but sober

    • @AlexKellogg-pv4qk
      @AlexKellogg-pv4qk Месяц назад

      Well said brother, perfectly said actually After experiencing it, you can have calm times and be simply be one with the universe. I am 100 percent sure that god has provided me with complete bliss and it changed my life. I don’t have to wonder if GOD is real. I know for a fact GOD bless

    • @karenackerman7751
      @karenackerman7751 10 дней назад

      You missed the whole point. My mom was bi Polar and had a lot of spiritual experiences. Only God knows! You're not God so stop judging!

    • @iamthefiremanjj
      @iamthefiremanjj 10 дней назад

      @@karenackerman7751 I am 100 percent not God I am saying there are some truths in saying we are all connected and a lot of people with bipolar experience a Oneness with the universe from neurotransmitter inbalance.... but this awareness is not delusional its a true state that exists in us all =D I wish nothing but the best for you and your mother and hope all is well. Even being healthy mentally experiencing spiritual experiences can be common. With love- J

  • @iamthefiremanjj
    @iamthefiremanjj Год назад

    Hello I am 32 years old and am continuing to have spiritual experiences as I am recovering from anxiety and depression . I thought it was mania or bi polar but in my heart I just can’t believe it to be true . Hello everyone I have been having consistent feelings of just merging with everything and embodying the state of oneness and love more and more often . I do not meditate, but I keep coming back home to realzize “here I AM” it makes regular life feel pointless unless I am feeling that love and bliss . What can we do as people to abide in that state of being as much as possible ? I have never felt so alive and in love I. My entire life and every time it happens I feel like everything is sacred and that I’m being held and guided always by something so big and indestructible. Please if you can share any guidance I would love to help myself and help others recognize this state of being as soon as possible . Bliss body for me was a state of euphoria coupled with a complete perfect awareness of everything around me and a sense of non existence and complete oneness with what is along with a feeling of connection to something unexplained. It’s pure joy better than any feeling I had from any drug it was exactly the feeling of ego death you get on LSD that was it for me I am continuing to realize my infinite nature and don’t want to numb this with pills as it comes and goes for sometimes a few minutes or longer the more I let go and become aware of this moment . If someone can please reach out. I can’t explain this state of pure honesty and love and selflessness . Here I am This is without any drugs 100% sober too I’ve used LSD and drugs in the past and it’s the exact same experience as ego death but sober . I didn’t have these at all when I was younger only now at age 32

    • @cherylk9543
      @cherylk9543 10 месяцев назад

      What you describe closely matches states of deep meditation.

    • @Keeptryingfriend
      @Keeptryingfriend 4 месяца назад

      Hi I’m also 32 and finding myself feeling/thinking exactly the same way.

  • @stacey3250
    @stacey3250 Год назад

    Why is this sooo common among bipolar mania...what if it IS a spiritual episode, THEY just call u delusional or bipolar ?

    • @GreatMysticalNight
      @GreatMysticalNight Год назад

      I wish, but there is way more other things going on then just spiritual break throughs… Like cheating on your spouse, spending too much money, racing thoughts, insomnia, ect.

  • @shelll9254
    @shelll9254 Год назад

    I'd like to know if trauma in your life can lead up to being sensitive to the Universe. Can and do Normal Person's have these type of spiritual perceptions where they feel extremely connected to the Universe, synchronicities, and beyond...

    • @FitnessMystic
      @FitnessMystic Год назад

      I would like to Expand on this thought too 💜⚡️ because I feel very connected to life… I am on here researching and educating myself for a family member who after 15 years is going through an episode and it’s been 3 days so far… 😮‍💨.

    • @stonergene
      @stonergene 4 месяца назад

      Yes, it can. The answers can be found when viewed from the religious perspective.

  • @timweedon2785
    @timweedon2785 Год назад

    I've been having spiritual experiences and I do not think I'm bipolar. BUT, here is the thing. The synchronicities that I have had are insanely unlikely to be by chance alone, if they are. For example, one night I wrote an ex narcissist I was with for 9 years who discarded and ghosted me for many months, as they all do,, that I'm in hell and she needs to come and save me like Robin Williams did in what dreams may come (I was depressed af!!!) Well, the next day, I picked up my newer gf (some "crazy" girl who told me she was my soulmate), and we went to a mall. She went to the bathroom at a food court, and I opened my email and reread it. Of course there was no responce (I didn't get the hoover for months)... but when my new gf came back to where I was sitting, she said, "hey, this is gonna sound crazy, but I have this feeling I have to go to hell to save you" Now, that girl said crazy things, such as, on our first date she told me she travels out of her body with the help of an angel and she has a spirit guide. But. What in the absolute f- how did she say such a weird thing about hell literally seconds after I reread what I emailed my ex the night before??? Also, in the movie, only a soulmate can save a person from hell... I asked her later if she ever saw that movie and she had no idea what I was talking about. .... That is ONE of many many insane things that happened to me. Also. That girl was from another state, and moved in with her sister about a year before I met her. Around the same time, one of my old hs friends started talking to me and hanging out nonstop because he was suicidal. He found out his wife was cheating on him. He lived 20 min from my new gf. Well weeks after dating this girl, I found out that the sister she was living with had a husband who left her for another woman... and it was my friend's wife!!! Moreover, I met that soulmate girl the DAY my narc ex finally blocked me on everything, at a bar I wasn't at in 4 years, and she said she only goes out to bars once every few months at most. As I walked in the bar, I told my friend I was going there with (who never goes to bars but made me go with him that night because I was so depressed, and also because his brother randomly had a show up there) "that girl looks kinda familiar but I know I never met her, I'm gonna get her number. How in the hell does stuff like that happen? Is that a mental illness? I don't think stuff like that should ever happen. That girl also told me her spirit guides leaves her marbles when she is on the right path in life, and the next day, I removed a closet shelf (I installed and remodeled closets), and 3 marbles fell on me! That was the only time I ever found anything on a shelf at work... Also, one day, she took me to view a house she wanted to rent so we could move in together. Well, she left me, my narc ex came back and discarded me again, and the next girl I dated and got signs with too... she lived 2 houses away from the house we were going to rent... this is all in the Chicago area which is huge. She lived 25 min from my gf who almost had me move 2 doors away from her. I never met her until after our breakup and she was the most intense love connection I ever felt. Also, a couple weeks after our breakup with soulmate girl, my narc ex hoovered me, I was still trying to get my soulmate ex back. Her name was Mori (weird fing name). Soon after I drove to my narc exes new apartment, and on the way I said, universe, which of thwse girls am I supposed to be with? Give me a sign and make it so specific I know for sure it's real!!! 5 min or less later I wound up behind a van that said "Mori" on the fing side of it!!!! Ive never seen that word on anything before or after. But I see it 5 minutes after I asked that question??? I mean.. Should things like that happen in real life??? Way more things happened than what I posted here even

    • @ruready2343
      @ruready2343 Год назад

      ruclips.net/user/shortsImCQ-btp9yQ?feature=share

    • @GreatMysticalNight
      @GreatMysticalNight Год назад

      Ok, do you normally type this much? If not you might be manic. Haha

    • @Nancy-ow9wy
      @Nancy-ow9wy Год назад

      Woah how are you doing now

    • @iamthefiremanjj
      @iamthefiremanjj Год назад

      Me to I’m seeing repeat numbers everywhere to this just started happening to me at 32

  • @AmyRdz
    @AmyRdz Год назад

    Para revisar, cómo la ignorancia nos cataloga como bipolares en episodio maniaco…que belleza!!

  • @AmyRdz
    @AmyRdz Год назад

    Samadhi is not an illness 😉✨ ignorance and need of control of the depply sick society…the matrix feels treat ✨🥳

    • @ServantoftheLord2007
      @ServantoftheLord2007 Год назад

      It’s the desire to save and fix that which is obviously completely devastated which the doctors and the law enforcement can’t look past their personal understandings of minute experience to understand. I get what your saying.

    • @ruready2343
      @ruready2343 Год назад

      ruclips.net/user/shortsImCQ-btp9yQ?feature=share

  • @christophercolombus2474
    @christophercolombus2474 2 года назад

    the ancient Greeks used to consider bipolar disorder as a divine gift from the gods! A divine gift! Wow! That’s WAY different than how we are looked at today. How fascinating. “Mania” and “melancholia” were among the first two diseases ever categorized. Even Socrates and Plato understood that mania was a divine state with various characteristics such as “erotic inspiration” sent from the god of love or “proteptic inspiration” derived from the Muses. They even go on to say that the god Apollo is the source of this divine inspiration! If the greatest minds of all time said that that’s good enough for me ✌️

    • @faysmith7248
      @faysmith7248 Год назад

      The Greeks were right.

    • @ruready2343
      @ruready2343 Год назад

      @@faysmith7248 ruclips.net/user/shortsImCQ-btp9yQ?feature=share

    • @iamthefiremanjj
      @iamthefiremanjj Год назад

      It is a gift to bad I experience it only a few minutes at a time

    • @decoded777
      @decoded777 11 месяцев назад

      It's true. Science is not always right

    • @quaidwilburn9373
      @quaidwilburn9373 10 месяцев назад

      @@iamthefiremanjjnot bipolar then

  • @FIDlibrary
    @FIDlibrary 2 года назад

    My spiritual awakening/bipolar story ruclips.net/video/Y8lhVdJkaCk/видео.html

  • @usernamelady8030
    @usernamelady8030 2 года назад

    ❤️🦋

  • @MrCool144
    @MrCool144 2 года назад

    Nice try satan.

    • @faysmith7248
      @faysmith7248 Год назад

      Absolutely 😆

    • @MrCool144
      @MrCool144 Год назад

      @DJ Surferdude nice try CIA

    • @jostnamane3951
      @jostnamane3951 5 месяцев назад

      @@theagnosticdeist3373 you have no idea what you are talking about

  • @couchsurfingsam
    @couchsurfingsam 2 года назад

    I used to be religious growing up. I know what religious fervor, spirituality, and perceived revelation feel like. But during my later non-religious years I had my first and only manic episode. It was by far the most spiritual experience I've ever had, even amidst the chaotic thoughts, obvious delusions, and painful intensities inherent to mania. I felt as if I saw something so beautiful that it cured me. For over 8 years I had debilitating chronic pain that vanished and has never returned. For 16 years I had non-epileptic seizures brought on by anxiety that suddenly stopped and never continued. I was carrying around so much emotional pain that was lifted. I remedied relationships that I never thought I could, one in particular with an individual I hadn't spoken to in 6 years. I discontinued using an addictive medication that I had been using for 8 years to manage the physical pain I was in. Other addictive behaviors were eased almost effortlessly. All of this happened during a bone fide manic episode, an episode so intense that it landed me in a psych ward for three weeks. I know the mania was real, and the delusions of grandeur. But how can I be entirely dismissive of the reality of the spiritual nature of the experience as well? It healed me, physically, mentally, and emotionally. If it hadn't happened to me, I wouldn't believe it were possible. If only one of those things had happened... if only my relationships were repaired, or if only my pain was taken away, or if only the seizures had stopped, I would say it was miraculous. But it was a host of things! I attribute much of it to what I saw in that place. I saw an "entity" so beautiful, so full of grace and love that it cured me. I didn't only see it, I felt consumed by it... so much so that I feared my molecules would shake free and blast across the universe. And again, I would call myself an atheist when this happened. I am still very areligious. But I grow increasingly convinced that there is a middle ground to be had here. There is something meaningful happening, for some people, during non-normal states of consciousness brought on by mania, psychedelics, or meditation.

  • @Pyrogolth
    @Pyrogolth 2 года назад

    I relate with both sides of relgious aspect but i am not so crazy so idk what is wrong with me

  • @jessequimpo7354
    @jessequimpo7354 2 года назад

    Great video thank you so much!

  • @terramarseglia2323
    @terramarseglia2323 2 года назад

    Two things: 1) Know yourself and 2) Bio-feedback. If some quack thinks I am pathological that is really THEIR fucking problem. I'm not paying them $200 an hour to tell me I'm fucked in the head and that no trauma caused it.

  • @terramarseglia2323
    @terramarseglia2323 2 года назад

    People get "depressed" because manic episodes are exhausting man! Ya' need some damned sleep after one! I mean this is really basic physiology. Something I should think a "doctor" would know! Fuck I have a degree in English Literature and I know enough to know that if a child stays up all night, she's going to want to sleep the whole next day. Where do these people go to medical school? Out of a cracker jack box?

  • @terramarseglia2323
    @terramarseglia2323 2 года назад

    People feel "abandoned by God" because they expect "God" to do all the work so they can be lazy, selfish assholes and feel good about it.

  • @terramarseglia2323
    @terramarseglia2323 2 года назад

    Yeah we wouldn't want to change this fucked up world now would we? ;)

  • @terramarseglia2323
    @terramarseglia2323 2 года назад

    Bullshit! Just because you don't understand something doesn't make it a delusion.

    • @AmyRdz
      @AmyRdz Год назад

      Exactly

    • @faysmith7248
      @faysmith7248 Год назад

      Omg. So glad I'm not the only one. We're normal guys 😅

    • @AmyRdz
      @AmyRdz Год назад

      @@faysmith7248 we are awake

  • @truthandthelight4041
    @truthandthelight4041 3 года назад

    I love the content of this video and info but I gotta throw this out there. No body can state as fact that mental disorders especially ones like bi polar are either a peek into a spiritual world or the bi product of a mental disorder. There is no test to take that tells us that we are positive or negative for bi polar disease. Only way too diagnose it is too compare characteristics and or symptoms of normal human behavior to that of a person having abnormal behavioral experience but who sets the standards for normal? It could be argued that the majority of what this video says is only based on the theory’s of human behavior. We do know for a fact that every single human brain is differently wired in ways we can only speculate. On the outside the majority all have similar senses being that of smell, taste, touch, eye sight, hearing. If you have ever blown a dog whistle around dogs you realize that there must be all sorts of things that exist but does not exist because you can’t hear it or see it but it’s there all around you. Long story short I don’t think we can say these manic experiences are anymore a trick of the mind caused by an illness or a brief moment of enlightenment or a collective cosmic consciousness per say.

    • @terramarseglia2323
      @terramarseglia2323 2 года назад

      Anyone can feel a connection with nature, and the higher ways of Nature. But if you're a sick, perverted, delusional sycophant, you're going to gravitate toward a god who is hell bent on revenge. THAT'S where delusions set in. You'll notice that the Catholic Church (and yes I am aware of its foibles but chalk that up to greedy men wanting to control and use others for their own selfish gain and not on the religion itself) really tends to focus on the message of Jesus and his love, whereas your average Pat Robertson or Jack Van Impe wants a God who will destroy all of humankind so they don't have to take responsibility for their shit "Oh the devil is at work here..." BULLSHIT!

    • @truthandthelight4041
      @truthandthelight4041 2 года назад

      @@terramarseglia2323 I hear ya, John of Patmos wrote the book of Revelations in a jail cell after his town was destroyed probably why it came out so dark and delusional. I’ve come from a Christian up bringing but kinda bailed about three years ago when I began to see everything different. The wrong man using the right intentions will destroy anything just like the road too hell is paved with good intentions. Everything from the stars and planets in space down to the atom and sub particles in them, there is a positive a neutral and a negative. Light implies darkness just like good implies bad and the Truth implies a Lie, because of this we will always have too settle for half truths and half lies you can’t have one without the other in this reality that I see.

    • @terramarseglia2323
      @terramarseglia2323 2 года назад

      @@truthandthelight4041 Okie dokie.

    • @truthandthelight4041
      @truthandthelight4041 2 года назад

      @@terramarseglia2323 That’s what I should have said.

  • @pranavdixit6157
    @pranavdixit6157 3 года назад

    When I had my manic episodes I felt as if I knew everything and refused to believe in coincidences (everything had a connection) which was attributable to delusion and their imbalance/tumultuous experiences emphasised by my need to feel god's presence despite not having a very religious background. In my case, religion is like an intangible 4th dimension where aspects of the community, looking for help, feeling inner peace, etc are all interrelated.

    • @terramarseglia2323
      @terramarseglia2323 2 года назад

      So you're saying that in this vast universe nothing is connected? Science has already disproven that time and time again! It sounds to me like you are parroting what you heard someone else say.

    • @couchsurfingsam
      @couchsurfingsam 2 года назад

      Like the presentation pointed out, there is a place of balance. I am a non-religious person who had an intense spiritual experience during my first and only manic episode. Everything did feel connected. And though I think one can draw delusional conclusions about this concept, I am beginning to believe that this is a fundamental truth about the nature of reality. I think we, especially in Western Civilization, like to categorize everything... put everything in it's own box. And though this has practical application, we tend to lose sight of the interconnectedness of our world. This why we think we can deal devastating blows our planets ecology without ramification. What I mean to say is... there is a middle ground. Things are interconnected. Mania, meditation, psychedelics, and religious fervor for some people can induce states of abnormal consciousness that help us see that. But we also have to keep our feet on the ground and not get swept away.

    • @GotFaculty
      @GotFaculty 2 года назад

      @@couchsurfingsam Yup We learn balance with lots of falls

    • @rustaag1122
      @rustaag1122 Год назад

      I had the same thing like evertthing was connected and there where no coincidences

  • @donaldsantos6807
    @donaldsantos6807 3 года назад

    Wow you hit the nail right on the head. For twenty years I thought my manic episodes we spiritual , I didn't even think that I had a mental disorder. Once every couple of years I would experience all these supernatural occurrences. So naturally I thought it was God related. I mean my voice would change , I would sing and dance like no other. All these crazy coincidences would happen. I would even drink poison to prove that it was God. This would last close to a year each time then I would crash and be sooo depressed for at least 3 years before I would get the 'spirit' again. Now I've been diagnosed with bipolar and I'm so confused but it's nice to know that people have been through the same thing

    • @terramarseglia2323
      @terramarseglia2323 2 года назад

      There is a religious experience and then there are delusions. Learn to differentiate between the two.

    • @couchsurfingsam
      @couchsurfingsam 2 года назад

      @@terramarseglia2323 I don't think it's that cut and dry.

    • @GotFaculty
      @GotFaculty 2 года назад

      You find the spirit through Faith. There is many Doubts thrown at us in the world and if we take them on, we get further away from Faith. Trust your intuition enough to do whats right, cast away the doubts with faith that you will endure the process. When you do you'll be blessed. When we get blessed, we see that our faith is paid off. Mania is so profound to grab our attention and teach us that we are blessed through Faith. You aren't crazy

    • @popformate944
      @popformate944 Год назад

      @@terramarseglia2323 AMEN God bless you and your family in JESUS name AMEN