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Years before all this started happening, I studied with an enlightened Master. Years later, in 2011, when all the quantum weirdness started happening, I contacted him to ask what the heck was going on. At times, I thought I was going nuts, and other times I felt enlightened. The gap was very small, and it was hard to tell the difference. I had no guide, though I had a compass. He did give me some pointers, but I’ve been on my own from there. There comes a time when the Master leaves you to your own devices. Excerpt from The Bipolar Game Changer book #bipolaronebook #bipolar1book #bipolar1books #bipolaronebooks #bipolardisorderbook #bipolardisorderbooks #bipolaronedisorderbook #bipolaronedisorderbooks #bipolar1disorderbook #bipolar1disorderbooks #bipolardisorder1book #bipolardisorder1books #bipolardisorderonebook #bipolardisorderonebooks
After all the chaos of mania, psychosis, and crisis, thank God sometimes for the reassurance that “it was all just a mental illness,” right? It’s a chemical imbalance in the brain. I like to think that too on rare occasion and surrender to the higher power of psychosis. It’s helpful after a terrifying, death- defying, psychosis, and crisis. Medication equals mercy when we can’t find our way through the labyrinth. Accepting that it’s just a mental illness is a way to get back into the mainstream world, just like accepting that Jesus is my savior gets me into heaven. Excerpt from The Bipolar Game Changer book #bipolaronebook #bipolar1book #bipolar1books #bipolaronebooks #bipolardisorderbook #bipolardisorderbooks #bipolaronedisorderbook #bipolaronedisorderbooks #bipolar1disorderbook #bipolar1disorderbooks #bipolardisorder1book #bipolardisorder1books #bipolardisorderonebook #bipolardisorderonebooks
In crisis, believing that it’s all just my mental illness sometimes comes as a welcome relief. I’ve seen many glitches in the Matrix! I’ve also had a stigmata-like experience when I was in a crisis state. I went to psych emergency, and they turned me away, likely because they were too full, so I went home with an additional prescription. When I got home, I walked in the door only to see blood on a red pepper sitting on the counter. I dabbed it with my finger and tasted it because I was sure it wasn’t blood. I tasted blood. Excerpt from The Bipolar Game Changer book #bipolaronebook #bipolar1book #bipolar1books #bipolaronebooks #bipolardisorderbook #bipolardisorderbooks #bipolaronedisorderbook #bipolaronedisorderbooks #bipolar1disorderbook #bipolar1disorderbooks #bipolardisorder1book #bipolardisorder1books #bipolardisorderonebook #bipolardisorderonebooks
The DSM categories for bipolar diagnoses are oversimplifications designed for doctors and clinicians. The lived experiences are much more complex. To say that bipolar is up and down or a high or low mood isn’t the whole story. It might be useful for us to reconsider the term bipolar altogether. This strategy can double in that it can reduce the self-stigma and stigma. The lived experiences aren’t just between two poles, either good or bad. We could better describe it as omni-directional and omni- dimensional. “Omni” means “all.” We have access to new rich sensations, experiences, feelings, and emotions. It’s as if we have access to all of them and more. I coined the word “omnipolar” to denote including all poles on the spectrum of being human. #bipolaronebook #bipolar1book #bipolar1books #bipolaronebooks #bipolardisorderbook #bipolardisorderbooks #bipolaronedisorderbook #bipolaronedisorderbooks #bipolar1disorderbook #bipolar1disorderbooks #bipolardisorder1book #bipolardisorder1books #bipolardisorderonebook #bipolardisorderonebooks
At Esalen in the summer of 1968, there was a conference called “The Value of Psychotic Experience.” Presenters included Alan Watts, Stan Groff, R.D. Laing, John Weir Perry, and Allen Ginsberg. Seeing that there is value in psychosis is nothing new. Bipolar, mania, and psychosis are part of the human experience and thus part of human nature. According to futurist Jason Silva, “Awe is an experience of such perceptual vastness you literally have to reconfigure your mental models of the world to assimilate it.”101 Mania and psychosis are part of awe because our mental models have to expand to assimilate them. As our experience expands in mania, awe ensues because our mental models try to inflate to make sense of it. Mania is supra-awe, or beyond awe, in that it quickly and profoundly reconfigures our mental models for us. We don’t have to try to get the software download and start the install. The process of ego re-engagement is like awe-reversal or reversing the awe. The inertia of awe and synchronicity went on for a prolonged period and now the field of ego consciousness re-envelops the body-mind. Excerpt from The Bipolar Game Changer book #bipolaronebook #bipolar1book #bipolar1books #bipolaronebooks #bipolardisorderbook #bipolardisorderbooks #bipolaronedisorderbook #bipolaronedisorderbooks #bipolar1disorderbook #bipolar1disorderbooks #bipolardisorder1book #bipolardisorder1books #bipolardisorderonebook #bipolardisorderonebooks #celebratebipolardisorder #madgifts #bipolardisorderawareness #bipolartype1 #dropthedisorder #spiritualemergence #spiritualemergency #bipolarpride #madinamerica #bipolarauthor #bipolarwriter #bipolarsuperpowers
Stop Believing in Yourself Self, belief, thought, memory, and fear overlap to perpetuate the misuse of the brain. The key is not to believe any thoughts or beliefs, and they will pass by. Otherwise, we are limited by the beliefs we hold firmly or overly identify with. Strong belief or identification creates stories and limits new possibilities. By observing our stories and giving them reality, we collapse the wave function in quantum mechanical terms. Let everything pass by like clouds and remain the witness, not the storyteller. Stories are about the past. The witness can see what’s possible. Old thoughts, memories, and beliefs can still run interference programs and trip us up in mania, so learning to minimize thought is a good approach. Excerpt from The Bipolar Game Changer book #bipolaronebook #bipolar1book #bipolar1books #bipolaronebooks #bipolardisorderbook #bipolardisorderbooks #bipolaronedisorderbook #bipolaronedisorderbooks #bipolar1disorderbook #bipolar1disorderbooks #bipolardisorder1book #bipolardisorder1books #bipolardisorderonebook #bipolardisorderonebooks #celebratebipolardisorder #madgifts #bipolardisorderawareness #bipolartype1 #dropthedisorder #spiritualemergence #spiritualemergency #bipolarpride #madinamerica #bipolarauthor #bipolarwriter #bipolarsuperpowers #josephcampbell #josephcampbellquotes
During the day, mark down any insights or anything else that has meaning to you in a notebook or electronic notepad. Write it out like raw data. Just this one step validates the fact that new information is trying to alchemize through you into the material realm. You are recording and documenting them, and that’s the least you can do. Come back to it later and extrapolate it. Excerpt from the book The Bipolar Game Changer #bipolaronebook #bipolar1book #bipolar1books #bipolaronebooks #bipolardisorderbook #bipolardisorderbooks #bipolaronedisorderbook #bipolaronedisorderbooks #bipolar1disorderbook #bipolar1disorderbooks #bipolardisorder1book #bipolardisorder1books #bipolardisorderonebook #bipolardisorderonebooks #celebratebipolardisorder #madgifts #bipolardisorderawareness #bipolartype1 #dropthedisorder #spiritualemergence #spiritualemergency #bipolarpride #madinamerica #bipolarauthor #bipolarwriter #bipolarsuperpowers #davidbohm #drdavidbohm #davidbohmquotes
Creating Meaning through Dialogue in Consciousness In 2016, I started having a dialogue with myself. That dialogue was key to unlocking the meaning in mania. What I call Self- dialogue is a safe container to look at the information, meaning and experience of mania. Through dialogue, you can harvest your mania, create consciously, and live your dreams. Dialogue is all about communicating to unfold meaning. Dr. David Bohm said, “The point is that dialogue...goes into the process of thought behind the assumptions, not just the assumptions themselves." He also made another important distinction in dialogue when he said, “Dialogue may not be concerned directly with truth—it may arrive at truth, but it is concerned with meaning.” That’s why Self-dialogue is so powerful, because it gets behind the assumptions of thought and gets into meaning. The mental health system gives us a quick “truth” that we are mentally ill to explain our experiences. Dialogue is concerned with our meanings, not some arbitrary, “objective” truth. Luckily, we can use dialogue as a powerful tool for ourselves. Excerpt from the book The Bipolar Game Changer #bipolaronebook #bipolar1book #bipolar1books #bipolaronebooks #bipolardisorderbook #bipolardisorderbooks #bipolaronedisorderbook #bipolaronedisorderbooks #bipolar1disorderbook #bipolar1disorderbooks #bipolardisorder1book #bipolardisorder1books #bipolardisorderonebook #bipolardisorderonebooks #celebratebipolardisorder #madgifts #bipolardisorderawareness #bipolartype1 #dropthedisorder #spiritualemergence #spiritualemergency #bipolarpride #madinamerica #bipolarauthor #bipolarwriter #bipolarsuperpowers #ralphsmart #ralphsmartquotes
In 2005, long before I had any encounter with mania, I had a gig handing out flyers for a new spa in the city. A guy came up to me and told me to read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I had already heard of the book two years prior, and even though I didn’t care for reading at the time, I took his recommendation as a sign from the Universe. After my shift, I walked up the street to purchase the book at a local bookstore. When I got home and started reading, to my surprise, I couldn’t put it down. Early in the book, Eckhart Tolle proposed asking oneself the following question, then listening for the answer. The question was, “I wonder what my next thought will be?” I put the book down into my lap and asked myself, “I wonder what my next thought will be?” I looked up and to the left with my eyes open, wondering, waiting. Unexpectedly, my mind was quiet. For about 20 seconds there were no thoughts, then the chattering resumed. I couldn’t believe it. The question made my mind completely silent. I didn’t have to believe in silence. I knew it was possible, when before it was impossible. Excerpt from the book The Bipolar Game Changer #bipolaronebook #bipolar1book #bipolar1books #bipolaronebooks #bipolardisorderbook #bipolardisorderbooks #bipolaronedisorderbook #bipolaronedisorderbooks #bipolar1disorderbook #bipolar1disorderbooks #bipolardisorder1book #bipolardisorder1books #bipolardisorderonebook #bipolardisorderonebooks #celebratebipolardisorder #madgifts #bipolardisorderawareness #bipolartype1 #dropthedisorder #spiritualemergence #spiritualemergency #bipolarpride #madinamerica #bipolarauthor #bipolarwriter #bipolarsuperpowers
Identity Politics It’s not taboo to talk about the suffering involved in bipolar ‘disorder.’ We’ve become courageous enough to share the suffering we go through. We are allowed to make the suffering part into something real, even though others can’t see or feel the pain we do. We are allowed to make an identity out of suffering. We need to stop shaming each other for talking about the positives and making them real, even though others can’t see it. I’d rather have chronic positivity than chronic suffering. It could be beneficial, and we won’t know unless we give it a fair try. Maybe it matters what we give our attention to. If we talk about the positive half as much as we talk about the negatives, we could tip the energetic scales, and who knows what could happen. Excerpt from the book The Bipolar Game Changer #bipolaronebook #bipolar1book #bipolar1books #bipolaronebooks #bipolardisorderbook #bipolardisorderbooks #bipolaronedisorderbook #bipolaronedisorderbooks #bipolar1disorderbook #bipolar1disorderbooks #bipolardisorder1book #bipolardisorder1books #bipolardisorderonebook #bipolardisorderonebooks #celebratebipolardisorder #madgifts #bipolardisorderawareness #bipolartype1 #dropthedisorder #spiritualemergence #spiritualemergency #bipolarpride #madinamerica #bipolarauthor #bipolarwriter #bipolarsuperpowers #donestes
We start with not knowing nor making assumptions. We explore and include elements of many approaches. It’s up to us. The new paradigm and new parallel world are an undivided and non-violent step in consciousness. This step in consciousness “is the first step and the last step,” as J. Krishnamurti often said when talking about freedom. Freedom isn’t in the future: it’s now or never. And freedom in consciousness is required to live in the stream of life. When we shift into mania, we experience a radical change and feel exponentially more degrees of freedom in movement, behavior, and interaction. All because of a change in consciousness. Excerpt from The Bipolar Game Changer book #bipolaronebook #bipolar1book #bipolar1books #bipolaronebooks #bipolardisorderbook #bipolardisorderbooks #bipolaronedisorderbook #bipolaronedisorderbooks #bipolar1disorderbook #bipolar1disorderbooks #bipolardisorder1book #bipolardisorder1books #bipolardisorderonebook #bipolardisorderonebooks #celebratebipolardisorder #madgifts #bipolardisorderawareness #bipolartype1 #dropthedisorder #spiritualemergence #spiritualemergency #bipolarpride #madinamerica #bipolarauthor #bipolarwriter #bipolarsuperpowers #krishnamurtiquotes #jkrishnamurtiquotes
We are going on a journey to make sense and meaning out of bipolar states that we’ve been told: -make no sense -have no meaning -have no function or purpose -are only detrimental -are delusions and/or hallucinations -are symptoms of our disease or illness -are lacking insight into our illness -will make us worse if we try to make sense of them -and whatever else diverts our attention from what we think independently All the above talking points and more are deeply ingrained in our minds after our post-diagnosis education. We need a fresh start. Excerpt from The Bipolar Game Changer book #bipolaronebook #bipolar1book #bipolar1books #bipolaronebooks #bipolardisorderbook #bipolardisorderbooks #bipolaronedisorderbook #bipolaronedisorderbooks #bipolar1disorderbook #bipolar1disorderbooks #bipolardisorder1book #bipolardisorder1books #bipolardisorderonebook #bipolardisorderonebooks #celebratebipolardisorder #madgifts #bipolardisorderawareness #bipolartype1 #dropthedisorder #spiritualemergence #spiritualemergency #bipolarpride #madinamerica #bipolarauthor #bipolarwriter #jamesclear #clarity
A Game to Get the Meaning from Special Messages As human beings, we have the capacity for new meaning. I’m not talking about looking up a new word in the dictionary to learn its meaning. We can conceive, alchemize, and birth new meaning through us. Research points out living with the treatments and socioeconomic factors that come with a diagnosis shortens our life span. However, our meaning span, or the depth, breadth, and height of the meaning we can access in our life is exponential. If we access it, time will be filled with riches and seem to pass more slowly, whether we live longer or not. I want to let you in on the secret of how to create new meaning. Start from not knowing, just like the neuroscientist Beau Lotto points out in the quote above. I agree. We can ‘know’ and understand nearly anything when we know nothing. How? I don’t know! It’s the truth. Isn’t that simple? Yet our default state is full of knowledge and memories chattering away. Knowing nothing is the hardest thing. Just try to silence your mind. Excerpt from The Bipolar Game Changer Book #bipolaronebook #bipolar1book #bipolar1books #bipolaronebooks #bipolardisorderbook #bipolardisorderbooks #bipolaronedisorderbook #bipolaronedisorderbooks #bipolar1disorderbook #bipolar1disorderbooks #bipolardisorder1book #bipolardisorder1books #bipolardisorderonebook #bipolardisorderonebooks #celebratebipolardisorder #madgifts #bipolardisorderawareness #bipolartype1 #dropthedisorder #spiritualemergence #spiritualemergency #bipolarpride #madinamerica #beaulotto #deviate
Mania works and plays best among friendly strangers in the friendly Universe. But what happens when we encounter unfriendliness? Our past world contains our unfriendly ego persona. Our ego is not our friend. People we know have memories and images of us, and they can unknowingly project them onto us when we’d like to imagine we’re beyond that version of ourselves. Being shrink- wrapped by the past sucks. It’s a buzzkill, and it’s hard on the brain. We know that thought projections influence us. They act like a web. Just as we can make the world magical with magical manic consciousness, others can limit us with their projections. We can fall into patterns that they want us to play out. They don’t know thought is participatory, so they don’t know what they are doing to us. It’s the mechanism of mediocrity. From: The Bipolar Game Changer book #alberteinstein #alberteinsteinquote #alberteinsteinquotes #einstein #einsteinquote #einsteinquotes #bipolaronebook #bipolar1book #bipolar1books #bipolaronebooks #bipolardisorderbook #bipolardisorderbooks #bipolaronedisorderbook #bipolaronedisorderbooks #bipolar1disorderbook #bipolar1disorderbooks #bipolardisorder1book #bipolardisorder1books #bipolardisorderonebook #bipolardisorderonebooks #bipolarhumanpotential #bipolarmania #bipolarpsychosis #psychoticfeatures #bipolardisorderawareness #bipolartype1
Many movements are working tirelessly to change the mental health system and seed necessary improvements. MindFreedom, The Icarus Project now the Fireweed Collective, the Open Dialogue Approach, the Brazilian Spiritus Hospitals, Emerging Proud/ Kind, Drop the Disorder, Mad Pride, Un-Recovery, and Spiritual Emergency/Emergence, to name a few. They have overlapping and unique themes, values, and actions. These movements share commonalities; they propose alternative frameworks and interpretations to the disease model. Our Re-Uncovery model framework also has different meanings and interpretations. We start with not knowing nor making assumptions. We explore and include elements of many approaches. It’s up to us. From: The Bipolar Game Changer book #terencemckenna #terencemckennaquote #terencemckennaquotes #bipolaronebook #bipolar1book #bipolar1books #bipolaronebooks #bipolardisorderbook #bipolardisorderbooks #bipolaronedisorderbook #bipolaronedisorderbooks #bipolar1disorderbook #bipolar1disorderbooks #bipolardisorder1book #bipolardisorder1books #bipolardisorderonebook #bipolardisorderonebooks #manicdepressionbooks #manicdepressionbook #bipolarhumanpotential #bipolarmania #bipolarpsychosis #psychoticfeatures #bipolardisorderawareness #bipolartype1 #bipolartypeone