To which I would have to concur.
The thing is that as a species one of our most successful traits is in
"pattern recognition". I can recognize an English Church long after it
has ceased to be an English church house. My eyes and brain understand
the model of patterns within architecture which make something a
"church".
I can build a shop with the same mode of architecture and it will not
be a church. Yet it will be recognizable to most people on the islands
or Ireland or Great Britain as "a church".
Insanity is the same. Certain behaviors are lumped together into a
category which is "irrational behavior".
I'm not trying to protect the current separators that our society has
built. I do recognize that there is something behind them. If we were
unable to build these abstract categories a medium such as this would
be worthless. Language would be relegated to symbols for things with
no way to explain the patterns (read connections) between these
things.
regards,
Ian
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:24:14 +0000, you wrote:
>I would definitely agree that LSD alters our mental/emotional state.
>I've never said that those people who we label "insane" do not act
>"differently" - just that those differences are inherent in all of us
>and to label someone as insane only acts as a divider of people.
>
>Shalom
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