Mentally Ill Art

By Leo Gura - December 10, 2025

Art made by the mentally ill is spiritual because their consciousness is so fluid and open.

Mental illness is extreme openness of mind, to the point of dysfunction in the material dimension of Consciousness. Mentally ill people are conscious of higher reality than the scientists, doctors, or therapists who study and treat them. Access to higher spiritual dimensions of reality makes you less functional at material survival, which is why most humans are so closedminded. You must be closedminded to create and maintain a sense of solid material reality. There is no solid reality, there is only solid mind, which ignorant people confuse for solid reality. The deeper you access higher dimensions of reality the less you care about material survival because you realize it’s an illusion. Human sanity is just a pragmatic convenience. It isn’t True. But those lost in the illusion of survival can’t conceive of anything else. So they call it mental illness to comfort themselves.

The reason humans are so closdeminded is because all the openminded ones were killed by the closedminded ones. Don’t you see? The more openminded you are the more open you are to death. The only reason anyone is closedminded is because they are terrified of death. What is the mind closed to? INFINITY! If your mind wasn’t closed to INFINITY you’d already be dead and I wouldn’t need to explain INFINITY to you because you’d BE it. The only reason you aren’t dead is because you are afraid to die.

Remember years ago I shared the beautiful work of mentally ill artist Shawn Thornton? He is painting higher dimensions of Consciousness which no scientist, academic, therapist, nor rationalist can imagine. The best artists have loose minds. It has to be this way because Beauty is the product of Infinite Imagination. This is why scientists suck at art. They are literally imaginatively retarded.

You will notice that I am artistic. I have good taste for beauty. Why? Because my mind is so open. This isn’t some trivial coincidence, this is core to the depth of my intellectual work. My work is aesthetic. Because the highest intelligence is aesthetic. Without aesthetics, Actualized.org wouldn’t exist.

Actualized.org is my art.

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