If it's OK, I'd like to tack on a follow-up question here:
It seems to me that there's a lot of overlap between what's termed "clairvoyance" and the sorts of things that happen in some mental disorders-- schizophrenia in particular-- and that quite a lot of it could simply be grouped under "loose boundaries". Like, let's posit for a moment that this is simply a perceptual scale, where there's a "normal" range of perception where most everything is explicable in physical terms (light refracting off objects, vibrations of sound through the air to your ears) and if you perceive anything else you ignore it. And then there are incrementally larger ranges of perception (which I think are not all that uncommon) that extend to... various aspects of the not-so-physical world.
Are there any generally-accepted guidelines on the difference between people who are clairvoyant, who have a larger, looser set of perceptual boundaries and are able to manage those just fine, and people who are schizophrenic, who also have a larger, looser set of perceptual boundaries, but manage them very poorly?
Is it possible that the difference is simply... uh... (awkwardly musters words) the boundaries defining the self? Like, in a case where the boundaries of perception are broader than normal... is the difference between sane and not-sane, how solid your own perceptual boundaries are between "self" and "all the rest of that stuff"?
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Re: Schizophrenia and clairvoyance
Date: 2023-09-25 06:58 pm (UTC)It seems to me that there's a lot of overlap between what's termed "clairvoyance" and the sorts of things that happen in some mental disorders-- schizophrenia in particular-- and that quite a lot of it could simply be grouped under "loose boundaries". Like, let's posit for a moment that this is simply a perceptual scale, where there's a "normal" range of perception where most everything is explicable in physical terms (light refracting off objects, vibrations of sound through the air to your ears) and if you perceive anything else you ignore it. And then there are incrementally larger ranges of perception (which I think are not all that uncommon) that extend to... various aspects of the not-so-physical world.
Are there any generally-accepted guidelines on the difference between people who are clairvoyant, who have a larger, looser set of perceptual boundaries and are able to manage those just fine, and people who are schizophrenic, who also have a larger, looser set of perceptual boundaries, but manage them very poorly?
Is it possible that the difference is simply... uh... (awkwardly musters words) the boundaries defining the self? Like, in a case where the boundaries of perception are broader than normal... is the difference between sane and not-sane, how solid your own perceptual boundaries are between "self" and "all the rest of that stuff"?