
Madness and Religious Experience with Richard Saville-Smith
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The Importance of Baptism and Transfiguration
Baptism and the transfiguration are two events in Jesus' life where things happen to him instead of others. In both instances there are visions and voices of God, he says. The baptism is a transition from being nobody to somebody trying to work out what it was that could be possible for them at this time. And then you're often to willing into wilderness for a period of time seeing angels, hearing voices,. Trying to figure out dealing with the hubris or the risk of hubris of what it might be to be a grandiose person. This whole relationship between grandiosity and hubris is a very complicated line that mad people have to kind of figure out, shall we
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