Managed Schizophrenia - Scare Yourself

"You scared yourself with music,
I scared myself with paint"

-- Lou Reed "quoting" Andy Warhol

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Terrence McKenna was perusing the Tollman Psyche Library at UC Berkeley when he pulled a book off the shelf about schizophrenia. He recounted that the book said "these people live in a world of their own twilight imagining..." His response was -- "This is IT!, This is IT!!!"

Schizophrenia is coming face to face with the four winds, the seven chakras, the ten personalities, the twelve tribes, the multidimensionality of alien space. So how does one manage in this evolutionary process?

Cubism is greater than the third power. It is an eyeful. Braque and Picasso were more than friends. Picasso said Braque was his best wife. They presented two dimensional representations of multidimensional six senses (if you count thinking) around a fixed identifiable object. Oil-based crystal balls. The past, the future, a series of interweaving three dimensions based on smell, sound, sight, touch, taste, and symbols.

So how do you manage reality? How do you acknowledge reality? Most of the time, I can barely juggle five levels of reality at once -- height, width, depth, time, and thought. Generally I process those by sight and hearing. I rarely use smell and taste, only a few times a day. And I hurry through, keep it safe. Touch is constant but mostly relegated to the background shadows of the unexplored world.

Picasso and Braque, god rest their souls, managed their multidimensional friendship. Jazz. They should be examples to us all.