So today, I would like to offer you a monologue on sanity and what that means. Maybe a new definition of sanity. I really believe that sanity is how we reside in a unified body, mind, soul, and spirit, or as a result of a unified body, mind, soul and spirit.

So apparently, in the collective dream we’re going through, we were emerging out. And there is actually a way, in Tibetan philosophy and practice, that you can actually learn to dream consciously. So in a way, that might be what a lot of us are starting to do now is awaken in the dream. So one thing that can happen in the awakening process is that we can think we’re going crazy, and this is fairly normal because all of a sudden reality is changing. And so you might have thought of yourself as Bob one day, who works at 7-11, and then the next day something else is really going on.

So it’s OK. It’s actually part of spiritual awakening. So strong emotions, limiting beliefs can surface, and they do that so they can be cleared and updated. Because as your frequency raises, you can’t hang out in negative emotion anymore. You can’t hang out in low states. You don’t want things that are going to be limiting this true and free self.

So sanity comes from the Latin sanitas, and it refers to the soundness of mind generally, or to soundness, and it also refers to rationality. So we tend to think in our western culture that sanity means being rational. So over time, sanity and rationality have become really interchangeable. So in the Merriam Webster dictionary, we see the definition of sanity as the quality or state of being sane, especially soundness of health of mind.

Now, from the word go, I really propose that sanity goes beyond the rational and analytical. So let me tell you why I think this. We can separate the mind from the body and the body from the divine, but if we do that, we have a broken human being. So if anyone is experiencing themselves as broken, that’s because the unity consciousness isn’t there. And the way through it, of course, is to establish that unity consciousness again.

So we’re really like these mandalas, these beautiful mandalas, and we each are unique in our design and our expression, and at the same time, we’re part of a greater whole. So again, I’m just going to say my definition of sanity is a balanced union between the body, emotions, mind, soul, and spirit.

So sanity also arises when you take full responsibility for your life. I’ve lived and been around a lot of ashrams, and spirituality can be used as a type of escapism, and that’s not the point of spirituality. Really spirituality is to help us evolve consciously.

So when we take full responsibility for our lives, when we claim sovereignty and tend to our body and minds like the precious gifts they are, then we’re actually consciously evolving, which is what we want to be doing.

And by the way, insanity is not listed in the DSM or the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. I did part of a PhD in clinical psychology, and I really didn’t like this idea of labeling people. I’m not going to get into it. I got through two years and that was enough for me, but I did finish my master’s in spiritual psychology, which I really loved, from the University of Santa Monica spiritual psychology program.