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Sanity, according to the Sage, is a moving coordinate that depends on viewpoint, context, and integration. We often label “insane” what departs from the majority’s perception. Yet the book reminds us that genuine awakening also produces a radical shift in perception: what once felt normal can later look reckless, self-blinding, even “crazy.”

That raises a question: if sanity is partly a matter of shared perception, what happens when perception legitimately widens? The Sage distinguishes between private vision and shared world without dismissing either. Private vision includes dreams, symbolic impressions, synchronicities, and even bleed-through from adjacent planes. The point is not to deny such impressions; it’s to situate them.

On parallel worlds and alternate realms, the Sage avoids the easy trap of pathologizing uncommon experiences. If reality has more layers than our five senses report, then unusual perceptions are not automatically errors; they are hypotheses that require skillful handling. The craft here is discernment. The Sage’s method is simple: coherence, compassion, consequences. Does the experience cohere over time (not just in the heat of emotion)? Does it tend to increase compassion (for self and others), rather than inflate importance or isolate you? And when you act from it, do the consequences land in the shared world in ways you can own? If an experience passes these three tests, you can treat it as provisionally trustworthy while you keep refining it.

Importantly, the Sage never equates “seeing more” with “being right.” He frames sanity as right relation: with one’s own mind, with other minds, and with the commons of shared reality. On this view, sanity isn’t unanimity and it isn’t originality; it’s the capacity to move among layers of experience.

So when unique experiences arrive, do not immediately dismiss them as “imagined” or “tricks of the eye.” In a multidimensional multiverse, incredible things can happen. At any moment, a dimensional drift can occur, giving us a glimpse of a parallel world, then snapping back to normal. If we are not careful, we are bound to miss it. If we do happen to catch it, trust your experience. Even if you were alone with no other witnesses, your experience is valid.

What are your thoughts about the sage’s take on sanity?
Could people with hallucinations actually be seeing real phenomena on alternate planes?
If you have struggled with mental health, how do you feel about this interpretation?

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