Hemant Kapoor

By Hemant Kapoor - Jul 15, 2017

This article attempts to bring out some of the differences between the mystic and psychotic. It can be confusing for modern psychologists who rely on external behaviour and have a tendency to club experiences of an unusual nature together into one category. In both, the mystic and psychotic, the shell of the ego, in which our soul lies trapped, bursts at some point and there is a rush of certain unusual experiences of a mixed nature. The difference is that the mystic is swimming upwards in the sea of cosmic consciousness to find his or her true spiritual centre, whilst the psychotic is gravitating downwards to the abysses and caverns of nature and drowning in them. Thus while the mystic has simply landed in intermediate worlds, the psychotic becomes possessed by forces and powers that are of a dark and obscure character. Also sometimes there is an actual overlap of the two since Nature abounds in all possibilities. We should not be deceived by appearances and confuse one for the other. A psychologist needs experience of inner worlds to interpret and know the difference.