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For me, "psychosis" is a spiritual experience, but not one I undertake willingly.  I believe in a God and a Goddess and when I am psychotic I connect with them.  I underwent a psychotic experience about a week ago and recovered in a few days of taking anti psychotic medication.  This time I couldn't help thinking about the purpose of "madness", I think it is either a result of traumatic life experiences or a symptom of the materialistic society in which we live.  When things are wrong people go mad; when people were taken as slaves, the desire to escape was pathologised as a mental illness, also slaves were accused of contacting evil spirits through Voodoo and black magic (today in our society that would be seen as madness).  When the Puritan's tried to enforce a form of Cristianity that surpressed life and living (ie. music, dance and contact with earth spirits and Mother Earth) people went "mad" and were burnt at the stake for witch craft (most famously in Salem).  I have a love of God and the Goddess and because of this I have been defined as mad and having bi polar disorder.  I think the psychiatrist is mad, because of his need to feel superior he has defined himself as a reality expert and see's my beliefs as symptomatic of a brain disease.  Many psychiatrists belief that there is no God and instead worship sience, in my mind this is madness!