Maybe people were not that dis-similar to us, but the individuals who had these hallucinations were favored by society and looked up to, where as today they are seen as mentally ill. So the direct connection with the gods was seen as more sane than only having yourself to make your decisions.
Problem is in actual schizophrenia the voices never tell people to do anything normal or healthy. If they were all 'schizophrenic' these must have been very different hallucinations than what we see today because the ancients were obviously very healthy and functional
I am 44, have done acid and shrooms many times throughout life. Had a "spiritual awakening" about 6 momths ago after a lifelong battle with alcoholism.. I smoked NN-DMT for the first time last night. I took 3 gigantic hits off a vape pen with good pure shit.. after the 2nd hit i felt it was too much, thats when i took the 3rd. I began to watch my hands fragment into cubes and get sucked into a vortex of spiraling color, then i went in.. I had no sense of my body, i became a vibration. My ego and physical self were no more. I was in spirit, I was energy. I was 100% certain i was dead, i did too much, i was scared.. I missed everybody in my life, my kids, my wife, my dogs... I panicked, As i was spinning through this whirlwind vortex of color and vibration i felt as if i was reborn, i almost saw my body, even though i felt no connection to it, in a fetal position being born into a realm seperate from our own. I was screaming in terror, and i kept hearing these calming voices say "Its ok, you"re ok" My wife laid next to me in bed, she asked if "i was okay" about 8 minutes in, and i had no idea who i was. I never screamed in the physical... She was talking to my physical body and ego laying next to her, but it wasnt me... At the same time, i felt as if her soul, or spirit, was one with mine. She said " your 10 minutes in" I had absolutely no concept of time, or what it meant, or what the fuck she was talking about.. When i came to, i hadnt seen any entities that i can remember, but i believe i experienced both birth, and death. It was beautifully terrifying.. Immediately after the 3rd hit i knew I was dead, and while I spun through the vortex tunnel I felt as if I was "reborn" into another realm or dimension.. A spirit realm of unexplainable beauty and chaos meshed together into this fabric of grids and geometric shapes.. I have never had any kind of experience like this. The following morning (today) I stood in my kitchen looking out the window while tears streamed down my face, yet I cannot explain why.. I believe I truly experienced death, and birth. I now understand the definition of profound, and as of right now, I no longer fear death, but I missed my wife and kids for what seemed like an eternity during my 20 minutes of a DMT breakthrough..
I think my anima took over and caused me to be transgender from a complex mix of isolation/loneliness, physical and mental abuse. Father left when I was a few months old, stepfather was a tyrant and would literally call me “sissy girl” for being too emotional at times. That caused me to be hyper masculine for a long time until it led to a total collapse in my psyche and led me to start transitioning . I suspect do to this, my anima took over and literally saved my life. Grateful for her but also it causes stress because I feel like a man often and it doesn’t help exactly with dating or life really.
Very well done but I think you have missed two key points. Neumann does not see the the uroboros and the collective unconscious as just something we share in our psyche but rather a part of us that experiences fundamental reality directly as in Kant's idea of Transcendental Idealism and the intuition. The second is that it is through a constellation of archetypes that humans perceive this paradoxical fundamental reality to build the ground of the rational world which is similar to Kant's Transcendental Realism.
A little dry, the aspect of the self and the psychology of Jesus as an archetype explained as an attempt by Jesus is misleading in a way, a lot of intentions are inferred, where as the story actually happened, He is real. Revelations brings more depth than a psycy study, it's not just a story someone tried to tell and not just a basis of western civilization but the only reality that exists and has ever existed from the beginning and then manifest through mankind, its always been there and it will always be there.
47:17 what does it mean if you still see or semi act like a kid then and still just randomlly excited for stuff/sort of see it 15%---30% like how a kid sees it?...
14:47 so ironiclly upgrade the right side of the brain?... Irony=the right... have their right side of the brain on off,broke the key in the lock,smashed the key,threw it in lava,hit the lock with a hammer, then threw lava on it.
