3. Is Bipolar Mania Spiritual Enlightenment? 2 of 2 (Upgraded for 2010)

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For many people the experience of bipolar mania is a sacred, spiritual one. This video explains how and why.
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[emeraldcityblues87]

just wanted to say that i experienced a "bipolar manic episode" in may and was hospitalized for a week and a half...even after snapping back to reality i look at it as the most sacred experienced of my life that served as a wake up call. My experience was basically everything you described here (luckily i never stripped naked) but it really cant be described in earthly terms..it was a gift and i feel blessed to live in the state of awareness i am now in. so much respect to you :)

[bipolarorwakingup]

@emeraldcityblues87 Glad you are getting a lot out of the videos. Why don't you join us at Wake the Planet! I think you would like having some online support. For details, see my website at bipolarORwakingUPdotcom.

[dahman511]

so whats's your take on this. is it that god is sending cheasebuger's from 1888 and telling you to eat it as a test of freshness or is it just some people are  just plan crazy?

[bipolarorwakingup]

@dahman511 Honestly. I think God is crazy, at least from our perspective. His genius is so incompehensible to us that we just can't make sense of what we are going through.

[DopeAMeanTV]

i was just hospitalized again for another manic induced psychosis. unfortunately im back on lithium :/

[bipolarorwakingup]

@DopeAMeanTV Sorry to hear that. Quick advice...if you want to heal, make sure you stop using street drugs and marijuana, then work towards cutting the lithium WITH a therapist and the support of people you trust.

[TheTeacherman77]

Thank you so much for your work...I had chills running up and down my spine as I watched the videos. I am currently writing a book on my experiences and how the disease is more of a blessing than a curse for the very reasons you describe so well. I thank God, (or the Universe if that's your cup of tea) that I have found others who also believe the same.

[TheTeacherman77]

I have been hospitalized four times for mania induced psychosis. Once I became hypomanic I exhibited extreme religiosity and I never accepted it as simply a symptom of a disease, instead I felt that there had to be something connecting psychosis and mysticism. Joseph Campbell reinforced this idea for me in the book "The Power of Myth" in which he states that the waters in which a mystic swims are the same as the ones in which a person having a psychological break is drowning.

[TopShelfRippin]

Great stuff with the videos. I do have a very important question. Well, its more out of strong curiousity. Can I person heal without going through psychosis? I've meditated in recent times and ive basically just observed my weird thoughts, tormenting inner voice(inner critic), dellusions and basically just watched them fade away. I would then ground myself and something interesting happened after one session. I got up and hugged my mom and said I love you. I hated her before that.

[MrSession11]

@bipolarorwakingup Wait a minute. one should stop using marijuana ? So I'm deluding myself thinking it is helping me to stay "calm" "stress free" etcetc ?

Btw: You chould get a radio show, because you got a very chilled out voice.

Thank you for taking time putting this out.

Peace

[ErkkiEno]

In my first psychosis I thought I was enlightened. Nowadays when I'm in a psychosis I feel like I'm starting the joyrney to enlightenment. I had fear only in my first episode, and the others have been purely spiritual. Last time I acted aggressively when I ended up in a mental hospital and that's why I had to be there for 4 months. I thought that those nurses didn't have an idea what I was going through and they should let me keep progressing towards enlightenment. I felt very frustrated.

[edge18]

@emeraldcityblues87 i experienced one in march of 2010, hospitalized for 2 weeks, i am creative already poems lyrics, but i was more creative then, i just remember racing thoughts fast, i never hurt myself or others n i never thought about it

[arepasheat]

Can you talk a little bit more about the shadow side? Is this side revealed when one comes back down from the mania? And is this the piece that needs to be integrated with the expansive mystical experience?

[duttywine64]

This is so true!!I have been in hospital twice now for manic episodes and experienced everything on this very and have been put on lithium,olanzapine,clonazepam,­epilim and was very upset because it took what I now know was a manic me away and I wanted it back because I went from feeling so awesome to a blank canvas and no feelings on the medication I also put on so much weight and now I still crave the mania and sometimes wish I could trigger it but the lows are also very real is it worth it????

[jmecrg]

im 35 i was diagnosed at 17 to be "bipolar" they have given me meds that im not even try to spell correctly from depakote to zyprexa lithium kolanapin (my fav lol) ...i dont do good on meds i feel like i`ve lost my edge yall know what im saying ...IMO bipolar is what they call someone who is much more in touch w/ the 11th and 12th strand of DNA or junk DNA as they call it ...this world has deseptive evil in it and we know this and it disrupts "bipolar" people ......focus focus focus ..meditate

[1xThreeDaysGrace1x]

3:40 is hilarious. you never think he is going to cuz but he does haha

[lamrimeater]

i believe that i have been supressing a manic episode for a few years now. bits of it peaks for a short period of time. i feel like my subconscious is leaking out and helping me realize this. then bam i see this i'm so gracious, its like the mania wants to come out and hug me and for the first time i want to hug it back! nurture it! this is fascinating... i feel like things are starting to make since. my vision of the Buddha, converting to Buddhism, my guilt over my denial. supression. wow!

[MusicalRambo]

Sean could you please invite my friend request? I kinda need your advice. So please let me send you a message.

[mrkflora291]

I know EXACTLY what this video is talking about, it's never been explained to me so well.

[TheLonelyGamer24]

im not bipolar but i kinda think the same way :P but not feel or see

[TheLonelyGamer24]

great friggin video!!!

[Liginha85]

Do you have an e-mail?

Because your video has explained a lot to me. I have a very close friend who is bipolar and I'm trying to understand his reactions.

Thank you!

[DopeAMeanTV]

does anyone know about the long term side effects combining lithium with marijuana?i was just hospitalized a week ago during a few hour period of drunken debauchery. I'm now back on a low dose of lithium: 300mg twice a day. i was on the same dose before and smoked 3 - 5 times a week. mostly to help me sleep (i hate klonopin & zyprexa). the only thing i noticed is slowed thinking. ive heard mary can cancel out the lithium but i am more concerned about long term brain damage. any thoughts help.

[DopeAMeanTV]

cutting the street drugs and alcohol is no issue. but i love my mary jane, thats going to be difficult for me.

[TylerOvington]

Can anyone give me the source of the painting at 0:42? I would really appreciate it

[7shivaa]

@DopeAMeanTV orthomolecular medicine...pls do some researchin this

[Timarman33]

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