It was a funny epiphany while I was observing a seemingly eccentric person that it came to me. Is there really such a thing as sanity? Now please bear with my... "lack of sanity " for this statement but who is to say that in the cosmic flow of things we are not in fact the ones on the negative extreme. Fooling ourselves into thinking we are correct in our assumptions and beliefs based on the majority rule. I mean a lot of our sane human amenities, social conditions and procedures have been provided by seemingly insane characters.
Ludwig van Beethoven who has produced some of the worlds most renowned music struggled with Bipolar Disorder and thoughts of suicide.
Sir Issac Newton who gave us what is now modern day physics such as the laws of gravity, developing laws of motion and building, the first reflective telescope and the color spectrum also suffered from psychotic tendencies and mood swings.
Nicola Tesla the father of commercial electricity ( yes the wires on the poles that power your TV, microwave and computer) and AC current was an all round genius which most cannot even fathom yet he was obsessive compulsive, declared himself celibate to focus on work and was generally a social recluse until he had to present one of his grand inventions.
These are but a few "insane" men that have contributed to our sane way of living. But I meditate and think that tomorrow if we were to find out that all we thought was right was actually false and the man talking to himself on the side of the road was actually of a "higher mind" how would we take it ? Would you insert yourself into a mental institution as being mad? Before you think that we are at a stage technologically to dismiss this remember, for something as basic as yawning we still do not know why it is contagious. Also, at one point not long ago in human history the entire world accepted that the world was flat until one "insane man" proved that it was round.
So in light of this, how are we then to make a bold and audacious statements with regards to the vast and complex mind as to what sanity is ? Some may even argue that this "insanity" may be the new indicator of higher intelligence.
"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether much that is glorious -- whether all that is profound -- does not spring from disease of thought -- from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect"
