I believe Awakening to ourselves sometimes involves exploring the worst parts of ourselves. At the higher end there is a freedom, an “enlightenment”. At the lower end there is a psychosis, a hellish imprisonment. 

Psychosis is a clinical term that basically means pure chaos. “The king of all monsters”. It’s the worst parts of Fear, Shame, and Anger, all coming out at once. But I just capitalized those qualities. I’m referring to their archetypes. Fear in it’s sharpest, most extreme state. Shame in it’s cruelest depths. And Anger at its brutalist. This is the state of psychosis. 

Why bother to mention this (you might ask)? In presence practice we need to accept all parts of our being, even this.