Oliver Sacks' book Hallucinations

[David Dalton]

In Oliver Sacks' latest book Hallucinations he says that
many types of hallucinations are experienced by people
who are not mentally ill though some have been misdiagnosed
as mentally ill. The entire book is devoted to people
who are not mentally ill who have had hallucinations
and he says there could be another entire book on the
hallucinations of the mentally ill (e.g. my blue rose
vision of Sept. 6, 1991, though that could be viewed
as a shamanic trial hallucination induced by the pain
of the naked thorn hill climb). And in his book
he has a chapter on drug-induced hallucinations.

So I guess I will have to revise my definition of
prophet.

What was that definition?

First I define BSS as bipolar, schizoaffective, or
schizophrenic. (I am bipolar.)

Then I defined a prophet as a BSS who is ordained
by a deity to that BSS and is chosen as an agent
by that deity.

However I guess I am going to have to include
non-mentally-ill people who have hallucinations
as well as BSSes, in the definition of prophet.

Am I a prophet? No, I don't think I will be
until I come out of the low years.

But if you get voices back when you pray, could
you ask said voice or voices why it is taking so
long for me to come out of the low years and
when I should expect to come out of the low years
and report back here? And again, according to
Dr. Sacks, you might not be diagnosable as mentally
ill even if you have voices and/or visions.

good night,

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