Standing as Awareness, by Greg Goode. "The clearest book I have ever read about nonduality."  -Lex Samu
"Takes you to a new place of awareness using explanations and tools you likely have never before experienced." -Jerry Katz

An introduction to schizophrenia

Spencer Perdriau -- UNITY: The Journal of a Young Mystic

Successful Schizophrenia

The Relationship Between Schizophrenia & Mysticism: A Bibliographic Essay ~ Sandra Stahlman, June 1992

Schizophrenia in popular movies (other resources included on this page)

Psychiatry in the Cinema

Are movies confusing people's impression of mental illness?

A Beautiful Mind: the book

Sanity Plea : Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut

Philip K. Dick books and movies (link is temperamental; may or may not work) "In a Philip K. Dick story one finds many elements of paranoia, psychosis, schizophrenia, hallucination and more. PKD's stories take the reader on a journey through many human emotions."

Excerpts from Schizophrenia & the Book of Changes: an essay by Philip K. Dick, 1965

"Schizophrenia is an illness, not a person.
No matter what illness we may encounter in life,
we are not that.
What we are is That which is the same in all of us.
We are all the same in essence...
We are all Human Beings."

This is the maxim viewpoint of recovered schizophrenia sufferer, Spencer Perdriau. Since returning to normal regular health, he offers his own personal advice and suggestions on how to make a recovery from schizophrenia for those who are still caught in the tragedy of the illness. Spencer also shares with us a transpersonal psychological perspective on the illness and takes great care to explain that regardless of any illness we encounter, physical or mental, it can in no way corrupt or damage our deeper subjective self, and that of us is equally the same in all. This book is a must read for those individuals and families looking for hope and survival from this traumatic encounter in the mind.

You can read excerpts from Spencer's book at his website UNITY. Click on 'Books & Literature'. Scroll down to 'Into The Light Again'. Begin reading and click on the book cover to continue.

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Standing as Awareness, by Greg Goode. "The clearest book I have ever read about nonduality."  -Lex Samu
"Takes you to a new place of awareness using explanations and tools you likely have never before experienced." -Jerry Katz