One of the reasons why there are so many people who experience , uncontrolled overwhelming altered states of consciousness (what the mainstream culture calls insanity or schizophrenia) in our culture is because of the suppression of the dreamtime and the immense pressure of social conformity. Not enough of us are spending time processing the collective unconscious, stepping outside of consensus reality or getting in touch with the dream world and so the task falls to a few pariahs who are completely overwhelmed by it. We all need to be a little more ‘crazy’, a little bit more like our dream self and process a little bit more of painful, terrifying or exhilarating aspects of the collective unconscious to take the burden off those who experience extreme uncontrolled altered states of consciousness