The important thing is giving yourself that sacred time. But then I pull out my laptop computer and get going. I even dialogue with an archetypal principle, who I don't worship, but is just an idea, which we call Athena. A lot of my life is about trying to help cultures improve themselves, especially indigenous cultures. So I use that archetype as an emblematic form within which to dialogue with parts of myself, you see.
Schizophrenia is a disease of the human condition.
We have a vast crew within, that used to be called sub personalities. But I think it has more autonomy than that, and we have to speak to 'the cook' and 'the healer' and 'the therapist' within. And you allow them to come into the forefront, so that local ego and its limiting and habituated structures are pushed aside for the time being. It's who you bring out of the background into the forefront that makes the difference as to how you feel about things. Or, as Francis of Assisi put it, 'What we are looking for is who is looking'.