An Alternative View on Mental Health That Can Change Your Life (w/ Oryx Cohen)

In this Episode we talk about topics such as Oryx's manic episode and how he saw it as a spiritual awakening, entering into altered states of consciousness and being mislabeled as mentally ill, the medical model system and psychiatric drugs and much more. Timeline: 0:00:00 Introduction 0:00:46 Oryx gives a timeline of his life 0:07:05 Oryx's first Manic Episode and how it was spiritual 0:15:12 How Oryx's Spiritual Awakening was mistaken for mental illness 0:19:15 Oryx hypnotizes people in a college book store? 0:21:25 Visions and Schizophrenia/ How Oryx Receives Visions 0:26:12 Oryx experiences Oneness with everything 0:27:32 Oryx's Visions 0:32:28 Seizures and Altered States of Consciousness 0:34:24 How the mental health system treats/views someone with Bipolar 1 vs How Oryx would treat/view someone with Bipolar 1 (DSM Chart) 0:37:27 How indigenous tribes view mental health 0:38:53 Vision Quests/ Psychosis 0:42:12 The corruption behind the medical model system 0:45:20 Psychiatric Medication and Chemical Imbalance Theory 0:48:46 Spiritual Effects of Psychedelics and Psychiatric Drugs 0:51:53 Fears around psychiatric drugs and being prescribed them 0:56:08 Final Question 0:56:45 Where you can find Oryx Find Oryx Here: National Empowerment Center Website: www.power2u.org Emotional Cpr Training: www.emotional-cpr.org Healing Voices Movie: https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Voices-PJ-Moynihan/dp/B0821RFTJY Find me here: Apple Podcast/Spotify (Audio): https://anchor.fm/ezekiel-funches Podcast Clips: https://youtube.com/channel/UC45XsZw4LpPe3HicS4s7KvQ 3rd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiVs_dLp5JfFnwSnu2Dsv8Q IG: https://instagram.com/ezekiel011?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/joseph.funches.3 Tik Tok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTR8CtRS7/