Why is it hard to feel spiritual when you're mentally ill?

Originally Posted by EdmundJohnstone

Cool story. Truly with respect if I may ask.You stated as above that you have been diagnosed with borderline schizophrenia, and that you also worked as a medium.My question is how do you know that what you experienced as a medium were not illusions from schizophrenia? (i.e voices that only you can hear, touching that only you can feel, images that only you can see etc). Or that anyone that has spiritual experiences isn't in fact having illusions from mental illness?

Most people perceive things differently but... With 'normal' hearing everything is processed through the ears and it's obvious that the voices are external. When I hear them in me head it's literally in my head, as though that's where the sound was coming from. I'm clairsentient, which means clear (clair) knowing. The knowing doesn't happen in my head in the way you'd think of how you perceive thoughts and I'm not given any information, usually I have a shift in consciousness and I just know things. The shift takes me above the level of consciousness the voices are at so I just don't hear them or the knowing will come to me in a more intuitive way, depending on what's happening at the time. I don't see images or hear Spirit talking to me, it's just 'there' as though I'm accessing memory.