Schizophrenia can have an organic basis. Studies show that milk, wheat, lack of vitamin D and other diet factors contribute to symptoms of schizophrenia.

If it does not have an organic basis, schizophrenia is a spiritual condition. Until medical psychiatry awakens to spirituality it will not be the bastion of reality it unwisely thinks it is. Being soul, the psyche's environment has the potential to be profoundly spiritual.

The schizophrenic experience includes having consciousness bombarded with messages from the domain of spirit. These surprising and often alarming messages and cognitions are similar to phenomenal dreams. These messages seek to communicate spiritual reality. All this emanates from the mind which is an area of ignorance for most people, including psychiatrists.

THE MIND
It is imperative to have a proper understanding of the mind. It is a prolific tool of consciousness that has a number of functioning levels.

First Level
The mind is the organ of memory. We store memory in the mind and, with its memory retrieval function, the mind sends memory back to consciousness.

The brain is not the organ of memory, nor is memory stored in the psyche. The entire body, from head to toe, is the mind. Memory is stored outside of the psyche, in the body/mind…memories of our thoughts and of our perceptions.

Emotions also get lodged in the mind. When we do not express our emotions their energies automatically...and improperly...flow into and get stored in the mind. Emotional problems result from such storage.

The mind automatically sends emotion back to the psyche to be removed... and, with this action, distresses it. To heal, we must lower our mental barriers (the ego) to embrace and express the emotion. It is that simple...easily done with yoga breathing.

Second Level
The mind is a metaphysical entity that transcends the human body. The mind is analogous to the universe. Actually, there is only one mind in the entire universe…this is because the universe is the mind. This is an established metaphysical teaching...one that usually must be pondered before acceptance.

Your body, as your personal portion of the universe, is your portion of the one universal mind. When you store memory in your body/mind it lodges, as well, within the greater universe. As such, your memory rubs elbows with mine and everyone else's memory.

Spiritual psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung was referring to the universe/mind when he lectured on the collective unconscious. Hinduism calls it the spiritual domain of Akasha, where the Akashic records (memory and knowledge of all past lives) are stored. Zen Buddhism calls it alaya consciousness or "the storehouse" and Christianity refers to it as The Book of Life.

All knowledge stored in the universe/mind, since the beginning of time, is available to everyone at both the conscious and subconscious levels. This is confirmed with muscle testing, also called applied kinesiology.

This universal-memory database is the basis of psychic phenomena…and the basis of mental disturbances for people who are not aware they are psychically sensitive, including those children that have been improperly diagnosed by psychiatry as autistic.

Third Level
Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is within you." He meant it literally.

When you imagine something, the image enters the mind and is stored there. When you close your eyes to imagine anything, you are as much in your mind as are the images. Keep in mind that your body is mind. You exist in your body...so you exist in your mind.

If, eyes shut, you imagined yourself ascending somewhere very high up or descending somewhere very far down, it is the mind into which you are traveling and, at some point (either up there or down there) you will encounter the domain of spirit...and the entities that dwell there. As incredible as this sounds, it is one of the more profound facts of life.

Shamans (spiritual healers) take such mind journeys to obtain spiritual knowledge to heal the sick. (Google this on the internet and study a number of websites.)

These two domains, called the upper and lower worlds, will at times spontaneously erupt their spiritual contents upon the consciousness of a few chosen persons who are unaware of the existence of these inner domains.

They will have bizarre spiritual experiences visited upon their conciousness from these domains, and they will think they are going mad. Spiritually ignorant medical psychiatry will diagnose them as schizophrenic.

A video on youtube.com shows a woman sharing about what she viewed as her schizophrenic experience...she could not tell where the chair she was sitting in ended and where she began.

This explains her experience: All that exists is created by God and is made of God. God became the universe. God is the fabric of the universe and of everything that exists in the universe.

Thus, the fabric of the chair is God, and the fabric of her body also is God. If both are God then there is no difference between the two of them. She got beyond maya, the illusion of life, and saw ultimate reality...which psychiatry has yet to see.

Another spiritual situation that can wreak some havoc upon the psyche is a sudden kundalini awakening. (Google this on the internet as well.)

To resolve these very challenging situations you must reject your ego. You must stop identifying with your ego, and identify with the soul that you are. Once your ego has been dissolved your condition will be resolved.

Multiple Personalities
Multiple personalities is viewed as a fragmenting of the psyche. This, too, is called schizophrenia. But, it is the ego that fragments, not the psyche. When a person fails at something in life his ego creates other personalities to compensate for the one that failed.

Dr. John W. Perry, Jungian psychiatrist and author of The Other Side Of Madness, described multiple-personality schizophrenia as a process initiated by stress wherein "highly activated mythic images erupt from the psyche's deepest levels"…turbulent visionary experiences erupting from the mind's deep domain of archetypal phenomena. (This is a spontaneous shaman journey.)

Perry recognized this as a spiritual healing process that "must play itself out to its natural healing end." Clients came out of it stronger than they went into the process…"weller than well"…concurrent to the demise of the ego. The majority of his schizophrenic clients improved with no medications…and "after leaving most went on growing."

Dr. Carl Jung also viewed this challenge as a self-healing process…a spontaneous initiation of spiritual emergence whose ultimate goal is growth of the soul.

Dr. Perry said: "It is justifiable to regard the term 'sickness' as pertaining not to the turmoil of the psychotic personality but to the pre-psychotic personality, which stands in need of profound reorganization."

Thus...as ego determines it is in need of reorganization (prior to fragmenting) that is the sickness stage...sickness of the ego...its inability to be reconciled to having failed in life.

Then it reorganizes...which is the personality switching...and medical psychiatry erroneously calls it fragmenting of the psyche. Dr. Perry further said: "… the renewal process that occurs during what we call the acute psychotic episode…" (i.e., the fragmenting) "…may be considered nature's way of setting things right"...which can only be the demise of the ego.