[NoraSpinnor]

In traditional cultures, when a young person starts hearing voices, having visions, or going through overwhelming emotions, it isn’t immediately pathologized. It’s often seen as a sign of calling, a spiritual emergence. Elders recognize the signs. Instead of suppressing the experience, they guide the person through it. They stay close and explain what’s happening. They show how to navigate the unseen realms and how to bring back insight, not fear.

In contrast, our modern culture tends to isolate and medicate. Experiences that might be the early signs of healing gifts are treated like broken circuitry. The result? Many gifted individuals lose their path under the weight of diagnosis, shame, and chemical suppression. People fear mental divergence and spiritual insight is often questioned and suppressed before it can be fully actualized.

Netism teaches that initiatory awakenings can be trying; we are often taken down to our lowest points before we can truly rise. How we treat these low points, though, can make all the difference. We can treat them as the darkness that must come before light, a necessary journey through the underworld, or we can medicate it as if something were wrong with us. The former brings growth, the latter brings stagnation.

This isn’t to say that no medication for mental illness is necessary, just that in many cases, we aren’t meant to take a pill to end our pain; we’re meant to transmute it and grow past it.

Sometimes madness is genius unrecognized.

What kind of support system, mentor, or teaching helped you through a spiritual crisis or awakening?
Have you ever wished someone had helped you understand what was happening?
Share your story.

[AmberXStardust]

omg yes yes yes all of this 🙏💔

when i had my first big awakening (aka emotional breakdown slash cosmic upgrade 🌀✨) i thought i was legit going crazy. i was having visions during dreams, i’d feel energy in my body that wasn’t “mine,” and i kept hearing this ringing in my ears like someone was trying to talk to me but not with words?? and the worst part was i couldn’t tell anyone. like who was gonna believe me without sending me to a doctor or telling me i needed meds?? 😞

and i’m not anti-medication at all, like bless the people it helps, but for me personally it would’ve numbed something sacred. sometimes i do wish someone had caught it earlier, back when i was a teenager crying in the dark with no words for what was happening. but at the same time, maybe the pain was the fire i had to walk through to know who i really was 🔥🌸

[BlackFernMoon]

I wish more people understood that spiritual awakening doesn’t always look graceful, it can look like panic attacks, dissociation, crying for no reason, thinking you’re going crazy. I was that person. And I had no language for it, no elder, no guide. Just fear and isolation and that awful feeling like something was breaking open inside me and I didn’t know if I’d survive it. What helped me eventually wasn’t a person, it was nature…. being outside, barefoot, letting the forest hold me when no one else could. That and reading books by people who’d been there and finding threads online, like this space, where I saw myself reflected for the first time.

I do wish someone had explained it to me earlier. That I wasn’t broken, just opening. That the pain had purpose. But I also think walking that dark path alone gave me something special. Now I trust my instincts. I trust my fire. And I’ll never let anyone tell me I’m too much again.

If you’re going through it now… please know: the breakdown is part of the breakthrough. Don’t be afraid of your own power. 🖤🌿

[LiamInTheWoods]

Even with all the effort to destigma mental illness, ppl still cant handle being sad. Like, that’s part of the ride, we gotta go thru it sometimes…. Thats how we get strong. Awakening to new stuff is rough, no 1 said this was easy, but it is worth it….

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