A Spiritual Problem: Communication and Being Crazy

(Originally printed in Psychic Life, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1982)

Lewis S. Bostwick (1918-1995), Founder of BPI:

If you don’t understand crazy people look at our language. It really doesn’t explain in any detail what’s happening to our emotions and how we’re experiencing them. The lack of communication is fantastic. Yet, it is very easy for anyone to get one’s attention by the words, “I know how to make you more aware or more capable” or “I know how to cure your inability to communicate.” From the first time your mother taught you how to say “Daddy” and “Mommy”, until the time you graduated from high school to college and into your first job, everything that was taught to you was about how to communicate.

The unfortunate thing about all of this is that there are so few people out there aware of the fact that many people cannot communicate because they are not in the body. There are different levels of people being out of their bodies, from those who can’t hear, to those who can only feel sexual emotions, to those who lose their ability to communicate (crazy). Most “craziness” did not originate with a physical problem, but a spiritual one.

When a spiritual problem presents itself to the physical world, that is to say to a physical body, it is usually an out of body experience. When the soul leaves that body and that body has not been trained how to handle that experience, it experiences such things as total horror, total terror, total loneliness, total confusion. How does the person who is having this problem get an answer and to whom does the person go for help? The traditional avenues are clogged with ignorance and good intentions. Most agencies cannot comprehend what a person is talking about. There are two places a person usually goes: the local Christian church or the medical complex. Yet sensitives and psychics are not heard there because the truth is more fantastic than the fantasy. Nobody believes you.

I’d like to deviate to talk about ancient history. Those who had seizures and whose body went into convulsions used to be known as seers. When the body starts to jerk and gasp for air, the being has left the body. The eyes roll upwards to a small area in the forehead in which there is a space where the soul and the genetic entity of the body communicate. When the body can’t find that part of itself which gives itself all its answers, the eyes roll upward to see what happened to the other part of itself. One of the abilities of a soul personality is that it is always being something. So that when you are in your body, being a body and operating at a very capable level, and some chemistry or short circuit suddenly ejects the being out, everybody else around becomes frightened.

What the ancients found out was that a new personality then entered the body. They also became aware that they could ask this new personality some questions. This is the same thing that happened to Edgar Cayce. When he left another being entered and talked and answered questions. This was called “Life Readings.”

Well, I guess you know we have gotten out of total communication with the medical complex, the Christian complex and all the other rigid communication stoppers because if you have not experienced it, you cannot be in a compassionate, sympathetic space with the person who has. This raises legal questions of how does one explain to the law, a jury, judge about a young man who is a kleptomaniac only at low tide. At high tide he kills. Why, of course, he’s crazy. I hate to admit it, I’m very aware of what some people are going to say: all isn’t love and beauty on the trip towards heaven. Only to heaven within is the trip successful and a beautiful experience. Read the words of Jesus. Not the words of his disciples.