stubborn envelope wrote:


The Great Awakening involved dramatic hysterics as seen in Pentecostalism and was followed by a bi polar like crash in depression among many people, and a great deal of them commited suicide. We just couldn't handle those extreme states of consciousness. We didn't have years of tradition to guide us safely through those altered states as the traditional African religions have.


I have often wondered if the depression that I experienced as a pente wasn't at least partially a  result of crashing from an emotional high.