Bipolar disease - mirror of all our lives?

[paigetheoracle]

Watching a program on manic depression, made me realize how in the heightened state, we lose sight of everything but our goals. Inspired madness - that is our vision of how the future could be changed, overlays the present as a projection (plan) of what could be. Depression is the collapse back into ourselves and awareness of everything you've done to achieve this goal of change (spent rocket effect), including everyone you have stepped on to get to where you want to go: On the climb up, you see nothing but the top of the mountain - when you fall down, you feel crushed by every obstacle you hit and its response to you. Building layers of self over the top of others (volcanic lava/ concreting over a parking lot) versus collapse and break up of that layer of reality. Mania (action)is a problem to others as depression (thought) is for yourself: Suicidal as opposed to murderous/ passive as opposed to active/ interlect as opposed to emotion/Id as opposed to Superego/ sedation as opposed to stimulation/past as opposed to future etc. I believe every individual and society bounces between these two states and that as we approach 'middle age', we become more stable- that is get lost in detail (grey) as opposed to seeing things in contrast (black and white).

History is layers of inspiration - changes in perception and style (tree and onion rings/ geological strate). It's an outpouring of ideas into the world from a central melting point.

By the way, the difference between genius and madness is 'connection' (shared beliefs and dreams versus suppressed ones).