Wisdom of today.

John Weir Perry argues that the persons that might be capable of leadership in religion, social reform, or the arts or the sciences and their potential contribution to society is making its first appearance in a “psychotic” turmoil, the rich potentials of which are being seen at first only as expressions of symbolic imagery. This group needs to be left alone by psychiatry and consigned to other forms of retreat where the visions can be tolerated, accepted, and appreciated for their actual value, and this allowed to do their own work in nature’s way.

Source: John Weir Perry, Trials of the Visionary Mind, Spiritual Emergency and the Renewal Process. Suny series in Transpersonal and humanistic psychology, 1999 State University of New York Press, Albany