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[APeacefulWarrior]

Aha, and if you went to the psychiatrist and told him how you see reality? You're close but you still don't quit get it.
This forum is where we can discuss our non-sane thoughts that the outside society would reject.
Just imagine yourself spiritualy awakening but having no one, and I mean no one who'd accept you/your thoughts.

"I still don't get it?"  You know, you could at least consider the possibility that I understand your proposition and simply consider it to be inapplicable to myself.

Plus, again, clinical definitions of insanity virtually all require the person to be unable to function in normal society, and/or be a danger to themselves or others.  I'm reminded of a documentary I saw on the jazz musician Sun Ra, who was far "crazier" than anyone here, but none the less led and managed a band for decades while releasing 100+ albums, a movie, and getting himself into the jazz hall-of-fame. (Not to mention influencing other greats like Miles Davis and George Clinton.) In the documentary, a psychiatrist asked about him said, "Normally I'd say he was schizophrenic, except by definition a schizophrenic cannot be that successful."

And he was talking about a cat who spent most of his life insisting he was an alien from Saturn who'd come to Earth to spread higher cosmic vibrations.

If I were to tell a psychiatrist about my beliefs, he'd say "Well, that's interesting" but wouldn't have much else to say on the matter unless he thought they were negatively impacting my life.  And since I'm successfully living on my own as a freelance writer, maintaining clients and doing enough work to keep myself afloat, he'd have no reason to think that unless I had complaints.  Which I don't.

I've simply accepted that I have beliefs which the vast majority of people don't share.  I don't pester them with my thoughts on cosmic issues unless they ask, and in turn I respect everyone else's right to believe in whatever makes them happy as long as it isn't infringing on others.  My beliefs are not predicated on anyone else in particular sharing them.

Otherwise, to drop one of my favorite Doctor Who quotes:  "Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way or another!"