The thoughts and images that compel the neurotic and psychotic could
become more overpowering in the early stages of golden flower practice,
when the "demons" of thought assail the mind as it relaxes its conscious set
in anticipation of the attempted switch-over to nonconceptual awareness.
Getting past this stage to experience penetrating insight into the essence and
source of awareness itself, not associated with any content at all, would be
key to any help the golden flower method could offer the severely
unbalanced in finding a way out of their hells.
If people with uncontrollable mental problems do turn to the golden
flower method for help, they could be better off with the guidance of
therapists who have themselves experienced the original mind of humanity
and can calmly view the various realms of thought and perception as so
many planets in a vast and endless space For their part, therapists to the
mentally bedeviled need the unattached buoyancy and independent
objectivity of penetrating insight, so the golden flower exercise could be
useful to them in a very direct way in the investigation of processes of
mental illness and liberation.
