I touched upon this subject before, but today I want to revisit it from a different angle.
From fitting into the "normal" category to being considered to belong in the fringes of society, or in the crazy or delusional category, humans walk a very fine line.
Many are afraid of deviating from their instructions dolled out by church, family and accepted affiliations, because questioning those instructions would be punishable with shunning, rejection, and worse yet, spending some time with a psychiatrist and being medicated.
As with my case, having had at least three NDE's  that I know, possibly one more when my heart stopped during surgery many years ago, my mental/ psychological faculties do not match the norm.
I've always known that I walk a very fine line, between sanity and insanity, or what is considered such.
My family was extremely abusive and dysfunctional, and once, when I was 16 years old, I mentioned to my mother that my teacher in school suggested we attended a psychologist to talk about my issues.
My mother quickly threatened to put me away in a mental institution, so I withdrew the suggestion. I learned then to keep it to myself, my problems, my aspirations, my perception of reality.
Since early age I was able to see shadowy figures moving about the living. Since I did not want to be labeled crazy, I never said anything.
There were so many things I knew and did spontaneously, but always kept it to myself.
I tend to scare people with my abilities to do healing, be with the spirit world and help the dead go to the Light. Most Healers stick with superficial and known techniques that make people feel good. Not me.
What most people are afraid of, I am comfortable with. I'm not afraid of energies, Beings, ghosts, or the elements. They are my world, a world most in the mental professions describe as hallucinations.
Did you know that Mediums and Shamans are considered to be hallucinating when they work with non-Human intelligence, i.e., light Beings, Angels, orbs, Star People, E.T.'s, etc?
Talking to plants and animals is considered delusional.
I walked away from a friend several years back, someone who calls herself a solitary witch and who believes in dragons and does healing work, because she suggested i should move into a nursing home because I probably had dementia. Why, because I was talking about the U.F.O.'s I had been in contact with and the E.T.'s that wouldn't leave me alone. I guess Dragons are real, but E.T.'s are not.
The last seven years totally shattered my concept of reality and sanity.
Honestly, during those years, sometimes I wished I was crazy, so I could take a pill and dull everything.
I pulled through it all luckily, probably because I spent just about all of my life in a multidimensional reality and I knew I was not going crazy. It was a test of strength and determination, and I made it.

In my career as an Architect, I worked in many remodel or salvage projects; some were historical buildings where the City or the County very much wanted to bring back the glory of the old.
Sometimes, as demolition progressed we found it was not salvageable, and total replacement was the call. Sentimental value attachments made it difficult to convince that the old had to go, as it had become unsafe and unusable.
Sometimes sentimental attachments, or fear of losing the memories of times past were obstacles that could not be overcome. The solution was to walk away and allow time to bring common sense and healing.
Being an Architect was not just about buildings, it was a metaphor for human expressions of culture, religion and divisions, as well as the universal need for respect and comfort.  Without understanding of the values and cultural issues, we create resentment and division.
I heard this morning on NPR, about Iranian Americans in Los Angeles expressing their fear of animosity against them by non Iranians because of the tensions going on now between America and Iran.
I met many Iranians in the past, they came here after the Shah was deposed. They could have gone somewhere else in the World, but they chose this Country as their new home. They were wonderful people, with rich traditions and a beautiful energy. But now  the times are different. Now, there is division, fear, fueled by ignorance and lack of acceptance of diversity.
I lived in many places on this American soil, mainly because Architecture depends on the health of the economy, so when a recession hit, I had to find a job somewhere else, sometimes another state. Some states do not openly embrace someone that comes in from another place, or an outsider as I was referred to. They viewed me with suspicion, questioned my motives for wanting to live in "their" territory, and shunned me from their circles.
In Yakima, WA, for example, I interviewed for a job at a small company owned by three Architects: a Southern Baptist, a Seven Day Adventist and a Born Again Christian. During the lengthy interview they asked me questions about my family of origin, religious beliefs, etc. When I told them the story of my Russian Jewish grandmother fleeing Stalin persecution and being sent to Brazil, the three men stiffened and said: "we are Christians here, and have strong family values." As if Jewish people don't have family values? I had to swallow and smile, as i needed the job, but also had to endure a couple of years of comments like "you are not one of ours, you don't get invited to sit at our table for Christmas..."
The list goes on, but I don't want to list them here.
This whole thing came back into my mind today when I was told by the Beings from a Far Away Galaxy of the upcoming changes for this planet, and how I cannot stop them. I realized then how polarized and divided this planet is. We are at a point where no one is willing to pull up a chair and listen to each other, and only a catastrophic demolition of all the barriers, and entrenched beliefs, would allow us to embrace each other as a fellow Human and start all over from scratch.
As much as I don't want to accept this reality, Humans are mostly beyond shedding the layers of fear, beliefs and ignorance that led to where we are now. They are so firmly entrenched in holding on to their prejudices and defending their territory, that the only solution, (which in Architecture is called leveling out to make room for the new), is called by the Beings as a total cleansing.
I can't be rosey about it, there is no sugar coating the ugliness of wars, hatred and divisiveness.
Trust me, I'm a Healer, I create harmony and new life wherever I go, so either the Beings are being extreme in their messages, or I'm in denial. I'd rather believe a total cleansing will not be necessary if only people woke up and took the first step towards living in peace with each other and this planet.
If only.