u/Spiritual_Yard8221

I had a psychotic episode a couple years ago and I’ll save u the details but it had a lot of spiritual undertones and had a storyline of me needing to change or my environment would eat me alive.

The strange thing about the episode was less off a delusional episode but a completely certain I’m destined for better life than what I was living and committing to positive life changing acts without any doubts.

I used to be a drug addict, gang member and dealer but In my episode I erased my entire trap phone which was making a few thousand a week, left my city, cut of all my criminal friends, started working on a side hustle got in the gym and back in education. All in the space of 2-4 weeks.

Fast forward a couple years now I got my own place in this new city a profitable business halfway through completing my degree and never touched anything illegal since.

I’m stuck in two minds whether I just completely lost my mind for a bit in a good way somehow or it was a sort of awakening.

Scriptures and religions have never made sense to me when taken literally.

What changed things for me was looking at it symbolically instead.

For example:

- Adam and Eve isn’t necessarily about a literal snake and apple, but could represent the emergence of human consciousness and moral choice.

- Lucifer’s fall can be seen as a story about how pride and ego lead to downfall.

- “Demons” might not be physical entities, but representations of destructive human impulses.

- Noah’s Ark could symbolise a reset after widespread corruption, rather than a literal event involving every animal.

Viewing religion this way made it feel less like a set of unbelievable events and more like a collection of deep psychological and moral insights.

At the same time, I don’t think these scriptures are just random nonsense. They’ve lasted for thousands of years across different cultures, shaped entire civilisations, and still resonate with people today. That suggests there’s some deeper significance or truth embedded in them.

Because of that, it doesn’t really make sense to completely dismiss them but it also doesn’t necessarily mean the most common or surface level interpretations are correct either.