[p2p-research] Creativity = madness?

[Sofia Bustamante]

I tend to agree here -- i think in your definition of genius, there is
likely to be a healthy disregard and humour about the genius itself. Humor
is often about perspectives and quite a good test for the lack thereof.

On 30 May 2010 13:52, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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