[p2p-research] Creativity = madness?

[Michel Bauwens]

you'd need a shamanic guide to do that <g>

but taken in appropriate doses, it does prepare the soul to wrestle with
these issues ...
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Maria Droujkova <droujkova at gmail.com>wrote:

> This, unexpectedly, articulated to me why I don't recommend most of Russian
> literature to my kid. It tends to take people to other realms, darker ones
> at that, and just dump them there without developing any filters - as the
> authors themselves either never learned to cope constructively (Dostoyevsky)
> or just followed the tradition of not providing filters to readers.
>
> Cheers,
> Maria Droujkova
> http://www.naturalmath.com
>
> Make math your own, to make your own math.
>
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> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> hi Andy,
>>
>> I have been convinced of this a long time ago, not sure if you know this
>> but I lived for 18 months in a neoreichian community and did 6 more years of
>> intensive body-mind work in my late twenties.
>>
>> However, there is a very crucial difference which may not be overlooked
>> and makes genius and madness different, although one can turn into the other
>> and vice versa,
>>
>> i.e. geniuses go through these different realms, but can make the
>> difference between them, they come out of the dark night of the soul with
>> shamanic mastery, on the other hand, mad people cannot distinguish between
>> the different truth claims of the different realms, and for this reason
>> become socially dysfunctional, while shamans and geniuses can 'travel back
>> and fro', knowing where they are and where there are speaking from ..
>>
>> Michel
>>
>>
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