this energy is the energy of action perception action when we see something we must act and it's also a state of lots and lots of ideas and we're entertaining ideas and were being entertained by ideas and not to say they're facts they're just ideas and I remember watching an interview with David Bohm Dr. David Bohm and he said to David Suzuki that we need another source of ideas and to me this other state is a good source of ideas it's a source of ideas that most of them don't come from a person's ego consciousness and also Einstein talked about problems won't be solved by the same level of thinking that created them this again to me is a different level of thinking it's not all completely coherent and intelligible but it's a different level and maybe there's 99 not so great ideas to everyone good idea but there might be a million times the ideas then a person in ego consciousness will ever get and I feel some of these could be harvested for the good and a lot of us create visions and and have these visionary experiences of how to help the world if we put those together I think a lot could be created so in that state there is a wider range of thought associations and it's making new associations and new connections and a lot of that is based on the patterns one sees in reality and one is learning through that pattern recognition and extrapolation process mania is like the universe brainstorming through it shakes up the prefrontal cortex which is a lot of the ego thought structure it shakes it up it scrambles it J Krishnamurti has a great quote that he repeated often I am the world and the world is me and he said it as it is a fact and I believe it was a fact for him this is how he experienced the world and it's not something that you can say verbally and that doesn't mean a person experiences it in my mind a person in mania experiences the world as I am the world and the world as me and this can be ecstatic and this can be terrorizing it depending on what is going on in a person's consciousness and to go in that state and first be awakened to the fact that one is the world and the world is one especially the first time can be very troubling and it perhaps gets easier over time it's like opening the can of worms the first time if I was the world in the world was me how would I want to be how would you want to be if if it was just one thing and I am the world in the world does me also implies complete responsibility and he talks about this too that were each responsible for the whole world and in the state of mania we actually do feel completely responsible for the whole world and I think that's why a lot of people feel like I have to save the world or I'm a hero or there's some kind of plot going on because we just really feel like complete responsibility for the world and that can be associated to a lot of different metaphors and stories when a person is in that state any kind of story can be made up in one's mind in order to confirm that felt sense of this is how it is and there's a truth to that that we are each completely responsible for the world when this energy comes in it's like having a conversation with the universe with the cosmos it's no longer having this monologue happening in one's head about one's own personal ego complexes but it is the universe having a conversation through you with you as you and it's talking with that and that conversation it's not like a linear logical rational conversation because the universe doesn't really work on rational principles the ego mind works based on logic and rationality when that breaks down whatever it is that's coming through is not going to be logical and rational because the ego is no longer filtering it that way and so it's a matter of listening and witnessing the conversation without taking it too personally I think and I feel like if the the psychosis process is initiated which is like the downswing it's like the deceleration it's coming back to one's ego conscious
