Our mind's entire purpose is to make maps. To push pins in known areas and connect the dots. To sort and organize and categorize information using a living Dewey Decimal system that allows us ... to understand. Our mind was made to make connections, experienced or conceptual, so that we can map our world.

For the body to evolve, one must break through the current confines of their physical system. Through exercise, diet change, rest and detoxification, the body transcends to the next level of strength, vitality and efficiency. The transition often feels like sore muscles, withdrawal, sometimes exhaustion. These symptoms can be the signs of physical evolution. We have to go beyond what we previously accepted as possible to gain physical strength and it often feels like sore muscles or exhaustion.

For the emotional self to evolve, one must break the current confines of their emotional system. Placing ones self in the center of the emotional power point might feel like depression, anxiety, or love. All accelerate growth. We must look outside of our current comfort zone if we wish to evolve to be more emotionally powerful beings.

But it is often unrecognized by spiritualists, psychologists and healers that the mind's evolution depends on the same transformation. We mistake information acceleration for evolution and keep feeding ourselves more facts, more books, more details based in the current system, when in order to evolve, we must really step outside of the current system.

And because the mind's entire purpose is to make maps of it's world, ripping away these maps, questioning reality as we know it, expanding our ideas of what is possible, looks to the outside world like insanity. Yet who's to say that the homeless woman with no shoes on her feet is not playing with a bigger reality? Who's to say that the outlaw robbing trains is not developing our next larger financial paradigm? Who's to say the hermit poet isolated in poetry and insomnia is not also in playing with a world larger than what was previously intellectually acceptable?

In fact, with regards to humanity's mental evolution, I am convinced that madness is imperative. For only then do we stop building the current and advance to something larger. Should not the consciously coveted state of insanity not be fostered and praised then by the brave pioneers of not only human, but personal evolution?

It's the imprints one leaves while we don't know what how or where we are that determine the outcome of our growth.

Get sore, get depressed, go mad. Take us to the next level.

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