Mystic experience and schizophrenia

Well, if the reasoning mentioned above is correct, when the stress which denies ‘me’ is added to ‘me’ being accompanied with consciousness formation, is it not possible that ‘I’ recur to the mentality of infant stage existing together with God, reversely tracing the process until consciousness is formed? I already indicated the possibility that even if the area of the right hemisphere having produced the voice of God was suppressed with its function being accompanied with literal learning, it does not cease to exist. Is not the recurrence which is temporary or momentary and possible to return a mystic experience, declaring the union with God? A word ‘abegescheidenheit (separateness)’, in ‘diu geburt der sun gotes in der sele von abegescheidenheit (the birth of God’s son within soul by separateness)’ which is the medieval European greatest mystic Meister Eckhart’s characteristic expression, indicates to sever self-centeredness such as desires and to abandon all interest about the external world, so it is probably the denial of narcissism in other words (7). If the stress denying ‘me’ is especially strong (such as a broken heart) or ‘I’ cannot be supported strongly against the stress at the point of bodily organization or life history, the recurrence can be enduring. Probably, it is what we consider schizophrenia. In schizophrenic patients, auditory verbal hallucinations are characteristically found and its imperative and obligatory nature corresponds well with that of the voice of God. And the symptoms shown by schizophrenic patients are reported to approximate the behavior or mentality of infants or barbarians (22). Moreover, among schizophrenic patients are there people who complain about the loss of self-evidence, the loss of self-evidence concerning the relation between them and the external world, others and themselves. They complain they cannot concern themselves with surrounding things and others properly owing to the lack of something. As a result, they feel themselves as the meaningless being (23). Actually, is it not the natural ability of abstraction in language or the abstractness of language itself that support this self-evidence? For example, the self-evidence to abstract a mountain as mountain, a river as river, the sky as the sky. Does not self-evidence to be able to abstract in such a way support the self-evidence concerning the relation between us and the external world, others and ourselves in its turn? The self-evidence becomes been conscious of by us, accompanied by the acquisition of consciousness through the process of literal learning, but the self-evidence itself seems to waver because of consciousness being disordered. As a result, the self-evidence concerning the relation between ‘I’ and the external world, between ‘I’ and others, between ‘I’ and ‘myself’ will end up wavering. What the self-evidence, concerning the relation between ‘I’ and the external world, others and ‘myself’, waver seems to be the same as the characteristic situation expressed as ‘the danger of individualization principle’ (22).  If my hypothesis based on Julian Jaynes’ thinking is correct, schizophrenia seems to be the phenomenon in which the consciousness forming ‘me’ breaks partly or in various degree, then ‘I’ recur to the state having God inside (namely, original state of biological species, Homo sapiens). So, if we will bring back them to us having consciousness, the method viz. the fundamental ‘therapeutic method’ of schizophrenia can be considered as only one thing. That is, to continue literal learning (reading and writing) which has been done from infant stage, again with love. Considering the situation that therapeutic theory about schizophrenia is not yet established at all, is it not meaningful to try this method? In addition, if my hypothesis is correct, we may be able to think that schizophrenic patients are the mirrors which reflect our ‘insanity’ though schizophrenic patients have been considered as insane people by us. The reason is that when we consider the present state of our civilization, which produced a dead end situation with environmental and population problems on a level of earth through industrial revolution by means of natural science based on various symbols, we whom we think ourselves as sane are actually the very ‘insane’ beings and the schizophrenic patients who can be close to the original state of Homo sapiens remind us of the fact.