Insanity and the Spiritual Path

[Nicholas]

* there seem to be a large number of personal cases (not myself) where exposure to too great a dosage/too intense a dosage of drugs caused the mental break.  I don't blame the drugs - the drugs just opened the doorway to experiences/events that the person wasn't ready or capable of handling.  Hence the psychic split.

Yes I agree that drugs are merely a catalyst of a mental type. My main priority in life from 17-24 years old was living for the weekend and my drug costs were more important to me than my rent. A rubber band metaphor works here in that if you stretch yourself too much (take too many drugs) and if you don't eventually snap, or 'break' as you put it Plenum, then you will feel the full force of the rubber band returning and whacking you on the knuckles! As it did with me. I had an extremely blocked orange ray and I think this is a most common behaviour that seeks to unconsciously unblock the flow. 

Interesting question. There is of course a  wide variety of insanity and I think what you're talking about is mostly applicable to psychosis; temporary, recurring or more permanent. I bet schizophrenia fits here too. Basically the system being "fried" by an overdose of catalyst/energy/reality. Ra speaks about this concerning Adolf Hitler whom I believe tried to polarize and use the higher centers too quickly. And I also believe that the condition of entities being unable to face themselves in the new more intense and revealing 4d-light fits into this model.

My full blown psychosis was drug induced (or rather it came about by going cold turkey following 7-8 days of sleep deprivation while still working physically hard during the day). When I came home from work on the 8th day I enthusiastically told my mum that it is impossible to die. I had been having thoughts during the day about this (or perhaps receiving thoughts is more accurate) and had no suspicion as to how this revelation would be taken by her. She immediately phoned the doctor and I was visited by 2 psychiatric doctors and 1 psychiatric nurse. 
So from an objective perspective I was dangerously close to 'insanity', so I quickly learned to articulate myself in a way that could be better understood from a veiled, objective or psychological viewpoint. It was my honesty in answering questions and my acceptance of having to go to hospital against my will, which actually prevented me from going to hospital. Instead, the psychiatric nurse paid me daily visits for around 2 weeks, and half way through the third week I was back at work and became very expressive and loving. I was a joy to be around.

Psychosis for me turned out to be a sudden awakening and my interest in metaphysics began back in the summer of 2001. In June 2013 when I read the LOO, I knowingly smiled when I first read Ra's reply Q1.7 - "but we can assure you that there is no end to your selves"

My girlfriend at the time was not so lucky however because in the summer of 2000 during her A level exams she snapped and was soon diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. This was a painful but essential catalyst for me in becoming aware of an 'addictive personality'. She became insane to the point of believing everything that the voices told her, which culminated in attempting to kill me in my sleep. She was informed to hide an axe under the bed and shortly after the madness I went to hospital to have my ear stitched up while (my now fiancee) she spent 6 months in a mental facility. 

I definitely agree with your perspective on 4th density light 1109. That particular Ra quote referring to mental disease proved insightful for me in grasping how I was ready, but my fiancee, Heidi, was not.