The Schizophrenic's Panopticon: A Framework For Better Living

Have you ever had the sneaking suspicion that you were being watched? Have you ever heard someone’s voice that doesn’t appear to be there when you look.. but you were certain you heard what you thought they said? This is something of a confirmation of suspicion for someone with relation to “suffering” from a condition typically characterized as “schizophrenia,” literally “split mind,” and typically castigated throughout society as nearly the worst potential mental health diagnosis because it implies the “sufferer” is losing their grip on reality. For centuries, millennia even, human beings have experienced variations in consciousness, in nearly every language and culture, that have typically been explained through the religious framework ie God/gods, angels, demons, djinn, and other forms of spiritual entities. In the