Owning our own story and interpretation of what happened

Diagnosis is medically helpful but limits the core of who we are

Grieving the loss of my former self

A light hearted approach

Not taking the diagnosis to heart

I knew myself for 28 years before doctors said they knew more about me than me

From raw vegan to 50 lbs up in two months

I kind of like playing the role of crazy person

There's meaning in mental illness

A miracle in the psych ward - from desperation to inspiration - thanks to a visitor

Symptoms versus inner meaning and subjectivity

Stories in mania and psychosis not to be feared as pathological

Diagnosis is helpful to access meds, programs and resources

Scientifically valid versus feeling validated

Special messages

Being happy for no reason is infinite reasons and infinite possibilities

What matters is having open conversation about some of these experiences

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Mania and psychosis as human design to prevent coercive conditioning

Not believing the consensus reality that the leader is trying to create

Mania, psychosis and depression as manifestations of the human psyche to ensure ideas can't get too narrow

Sometimes ideas come out of nowhere

People will keep experiencing visionary states

Ego collapse and the opportunity to transform

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Practicing manic traits and neuroplasticity

Warning: Get with the manic program

Inviting out potential: Human capabilities and capacities

Playing the token crazy person

People can't see what I see

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Random Acts of Kindness

Lifestyle Design

More conversations about synchronicity and magic

Inject some meaningfulness into daily existence

The big responsibility to bring some mania to other people who normally don't get it

The energy of mania is not personal

Reframing and thinking differently about things

Embodying mania - kindness and generosity vs embodying psychosis - paranoia

Embodying mania and being ones best self

Seriousness is a disease

Acts of playfulness

Another world based on kindness and synchronicity

Nature is the opposite of chaos

We really do destroy each other with our thoughts, feelings and actions

In some of my altered states I can actually sense what ripples I'm creating and what ripples are being sent towards me

Being seen as glad people, not mad people

Worldcentric consciousness and the dismantling of the ego

Living out the surprise

Rehabilitation and recovery —> Abilitation and discovery

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Practicing Happiness 1st

Suddenly being really good at being playful

The inner child

Whoa I had a buzzkill experience

Reality would be a completely different game

Talking about the rest of it beside the medical paradigm

The narrative of what happened and the highest possible reasons why

Spontaneousness, playfulness and randomness can't be mechanized

Experiencing psychosis

What's beyond our nervous system and it's ability to measure what is beyond it

One day education will prepare us for altered states of consciousness

Collective suffering and collective vision

See what's there for all of us to see

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Idea: Creating a workshop

A taste of my possible best self

Mania as vision casting

Pathological happiness or pathological societal design?

Practicing embodying some manic traits

The world is a lot more magical than we can see

Do we notice the flowers or cut down the trees

The 9th insight

Posture and fish oil

Deciding to be collapse the wave function and be mentally ill?

Creating our superhero avatar alter self

I was diagnosed with a mental illness is only one story, my least favorite

The Universe could be trying to send us messages

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The word "Peer" and looking deeply

Activist or advocates and joined through friendship

Happiness 1st

Playfulness, laughter, silliness as a survival mechanism

Diagnosis = "Now I can't be happy?"

Diagnosis = "I'm abnormal?"

Moving towards a different expression

Celebration is an opposite of psychosis

Celebratory beings versus survival beings

Smiling baseball players live longer

Laughter, hugs and oxytocin

Top down change versus bottom up change

The Celestine Prophecy or your prophecy

If I could make one request...

A shaman or visionary and celebrating psychosis

Ubermench this

"Heard" immunity to psychiatry...one day

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The terrible psychiatrist

Getting overmedicated

Playing versus problem solving

Trauma informed lifestyle design

Psychosis and oneness

Staying with the suffering

The opposites of psychosis

Traumatized by the psych ward

We live 25 years less on average

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Helping others.

System change is too slow.

I'm not so sure about the recovery model.

Root cause issues.

Families adopting people with mental health troubles.

Feeling guilty and a new start.

Having space in separate housing.

Gaining fifty pounds in a snap.

Other possibilities and other paradigms besides fixing.

Collective pain and hyper empathy.

Death and rebirth in the same body.

Eye contact.

A prophecy of not many of us left.

Independence vs interdependence.

Mad in America.

The Open Dialogue approach.

Dr. Daniel Siegel.

Emotional CPR.

Having chronic fatigue syndrome.

The altruistic urge.

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Why is there such a thing as being too happy as in bipolar mania?

Gross National Happiness.

Steve Pavlina - a favorite blogger.

Digital camera.

Being diagnosed with a mental illness and self esteem.

Ken Wilber and worldcentricity.

Nutella.

Being a hero.

Another way of knowing.

Information overload.

Inner experiences that aren't necessarily talked about that are subjective that may have some value in guiding my life.

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