Our 'normal' 'adjusted' State Is

The Condition Of Alienation, Of Being Asleep, Of Being Unconscious, Of Being Out Of One’s Mind, Is The Condition Of The Normal Man. Society Highly Values Its Normal Man. It Educates Children To Lose Themselves And To Become Absurd, And Thus To Be Normal. Normal Men Have Killed Perhaps 100,000,000 Of Their Fellow Normal Men In The Last Fifty Years.

What We Take Anything To Be Profoundly Affects How We Go About Describing It, And How We Describe Something Profoundly Affects How We Go About Explaining, Accounting For, Or Understanding What Is What We Are, In A Sense, Defining, By Our Description.

In Our Society Many Of The Old Rituals Have Lost Much Of Their Power. New Ones Have Not Arisen.

We Are Bemused And Crazed Creatures, Strangers To Our True Selves, To One Another, And To The Spiritual And Material World - Mad, Even, From An Ideal Standpoint We Can Glimpse But Not Adopt.

In Describing One Way Of Going Mad, I Shall Try To Show That There Is A Comprehensible Transition From The Sane Schizoid Way Of Being-in-the-world To A Psychotic Way Of Being-in-the-world.