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Someone with psychosis sometimes sees or hears things that are not there and has certain ideas that are not correct. It would be someone who has lost their grip on reality. But is that really the case? Does someone with psychosis not see reality, or do they actually see it while others do not? Can the cause of psychosis be a mystical experience?
Pro People susceptible to mystical psychosis feel a unification with society, with the world, God, and also feel washing out the perceptive and conceptual borders. There must be something behind it.
Objection A person experiencing mystical psychosis can only hypothesize that the source of their feelings is something mystical, but they would have to either identify the mystical origin of their feeling in an objective way or rule out any biological/psychological non-mystical explanations.
Pro A spiritual experience can, due to human ignorance—because people lack knowledge of the metaphysical world—turn into a mental crisis. They no longer understand the world for a while, as they have, so to speak, a small door open to a hidden world that they cannot comprehend.
Con Psychosocial factors play a role in the development of psychosis. Stress can, for example, trigger a psychosis. Cannabis use can also trigger a psychosis.[1]
Pro People susceptible to mystical psychosis feel a unification with society, with the world, God, and also feel washing out the perceptive and conceptual borders. There must be something behind it.
Objection A person experiencing mystical psychosis can only hypothesize that the source of their feelings is something mystical, but they would have to either identify the mystical origin of their feeling in an objective way or rule out any biological/psychological non-mystical explanations.
Con Psychosocial factors play a role in the development of psychosis. Stress can, for example, trigger a psychosis. Cannabis use can also trigger a psychosis.[1]