Embracing our madness ~~ the way forward.

We find ourselves in a world where those who are functioning in ways largely understood to be “successful” are helping push humanity over the brink. They perhaps are the most shut off from dealing with reality (madness)…which is really our very foundation.

Reframing and addressing the seriousness of where we find ourselves as a species on a planet we’re destroying, is an important part of the process.

Embracing our full humanity is critical and to be human is to be everything and conscious of it as well, which is where we are grossly lacking. We are largely an unconscious species. Being fully conscious, then, feels mad to the uninitiated.

To be clear, simple reality, for most people feels nonsensical, outrageous and extreme and so we hide from it at our peril.

The process of waking up is so terrifying to most people that they avoid it at all costs and force others who are attempting to wake up back into their stupor with neurotoxic psychiatric drugs. It is time for a reframe.

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“Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we received the greatest blessing. …the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected with it the name of the noblest of all arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art… So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense… madness comes from God, where as sober sense is merely human.” – Socrates – Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII by Plato, translated by Walter Hamilton

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You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it. ~ Robin Williams

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‘Let me emerge with my gift of wisdom
Mysterious experience, a seed in dark soil
I come back from the underworld bearing gifts for the soul
I know how to shine light in a dark place
How to navigate through deep waters
I know how to midwife emotions
I speak the tongues of madness, psychosis
I know the terrains of sadness, hidden meanings, metaphors
I have re-drawn the map of my inner landscape
Transformation, transition
I am shedding skins of inhibitions
I meditate in the holy hedgerow
I died and came back to life
Resuscitated by mother love, unconditional
I can guide you back to light
Deliverance, redemption, grace, my epiphany
I am born again, inside out.’

By Grainne Humphrys

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Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you.

Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life…If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature…Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules. That is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life. ― C.G. Jung, The Red Book