A client from twenty years ago emailed me a video link and her accompanying comment: “The quickest way for them to do this is through the chips they have inserted in the fake-vaccines.” As most of you know, the people who believe the covid vaccine is, among thousands of accepted medicines, fake, are those whose psyche, still stuck in childhood, has been hijacked by a perfect storm of neurotic fear and hate and politically-based brainwashing. If the current presidential father-figure hadn’t told them to take it, they’d have remained obliviously secure in the typical faith in science.
Reality is not desirable to many people. A 24-year-old client owned this. From a progress note: “Being drugged doesn’t sound like the worst thing. I’m definitely a lot less happy sober.” From murder to heroin, “maladaptive daydreaming” to wishing for a lottery win, hoping for flying saucers to general fantasizing, to waking up in the morning anxious or unhappy, adults have found themselves living in a silent nightmare, childhood stolen from them. A chocolate-chip scone or an exciting fantasy belief, in this eternal purgatory, will feel much nicer than a pedestrian fact.
A person wonders if, by some fluke, he may be the one person whose genetics or god will cause him to live ten thousand or a million years. He needs heaven but doesn’t worry too much about hell. He fantasizes about ultimate invulnerable power, swooping invisible around the world to kill all the evil dictators, or traveling through the universe to its charmed secrets. He imagines fame or a miraculous invention. An old woman and a teenage girl believe they are spiritual, believe in the healing power of touch, in the meaning of coincident numbers, in the power of meditation and crystals. I think this need to not be stuck in the mud of earth for thirty thousand days makes non-bizarre, consensus delusions possible. Magic is wonderful in childhood but it gets decrepit as it ages. A child believes she has a fairy godmother watching over her; an adult believes secret, powerful people put electronics in the vaccines. Magic fails for you, adults.
We never stopped being children. Rosebud. Prayer. Fantasy may be easier to hold onto than awakening. But there’s a catch. Schizophrenics, psychotics can’t help but be delusional. The rest of us have a choice.
“I hate reality but it’s still the best place to get a good steak.” – Woody Allen
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Comments are welcome, but I'd suggest you first read "Feeling-centered therapy" and "Ocean and boat" for a basic introduction to my kind of theory and therapy.