Originally Posted by
klavier
. You look at one aspect of life/reality, understood through a particular lens, and you can fall Yesinto an impossibly narrow perception of what is happening in general.
I'm not really sure where I was going with that, but this could be a very broad topic. I hope it didn't seem like I was going for the particular angle of describing sanity as a relative thing; just trying to communicate my own sense of confusion and further fuel the discussion.
Well you highlighted a conflict. Humans have an intellect and can manipulate knowledge but these should be secondary to intuition and understanding. Knowledge and learning should be extensions of an objective/perceptive state. Animals don't need to "analyse" who or what they are - they just are. It's people who fall into their own machinery trying discover their identity by thinking themselves into being. Unfortunately the more people think too much the more anxiety they get (because they are falling away from themselves inside).
Most "mental" problems begin as emotional problems. Reactions open the door to Neverland (and PTSD) and thoughts rise in storms as the consciousness gets pulled down to earth. Indeed some of the most disordered people have prodigious intellects/memories. A lot of "geniuses" begin as broken people (who often lose awareness they are broken). A person struggling to find themselves should first stop analysing too much. Wondering and yearning for what's true (vs what rationalisation feels best) is the starting point. There is magic in that that the eggheads deny to people