The philosophy of Madness derived from a Spirituality of Madness which I propose, meets continually new proponents long before my time.
This does not surprise me, but the frequency to which the world has been echoing this, and the lack to which most have adopted this sincerely does surprise me, or at least make me curious.
To a point I can empathize with this lack of adoption - Madness is not necessarily easy or even consistently pleasurable; it's a constant work in progress and Madness often just become chaos in the wrong hands.
"Method is the wall between Madness & Chaos" - The Madman Laughs at Everything, 13:17
The amazing part is that everyone is already within this framework - each as crazy as the next. Unity is the correct key, however we have thus far been jamming it in all the wrong locks...
Unity found in an acceptance of personal and thus one another's Madness will lead to magnificence for the human condition - magnificence as freedom, and a wild freedom of self; not a chaotic loss of structure, or even a chaotic structure, but Madness, in all it's fresh, pliable, and reliable glory.
The last chapter in my book is a series of quotes about Madness ranging through the centuries. A smattering of philosophical and spiritual paint that function as abstract art forming a rough representation of the philosophy and spirituality of Madness - of which, in form, only an abstraction can be made anyhow.
Here's some of the colors I'll be dripping and sliding across the canvas; some of the ancient paints...aaaannnd Happy Sunday.
"There was never a genius without some tincture of madness" - Aristotle
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness" - Seneca
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