Schizophrenia Patient or Spiritually Advanced Personality? A Qualitative Case Analysis.
Journal of Religion and Health October 1, 2015 Hemant Bhargav, Aarti Jagannathan, Nagarathna Raghuram et al.
Many aspects of spiritual experience are similar in form and content to symptoms of psychosis. Both spiritually advanced people and patients suffering from psychopathology experience alterations in their sense of 'self.' Psychotic experiences originate from derangement of the personality, whereas spiritual experiences involve systematic thinning out of the selfish ego, allowing individual...