Mental Health vs. Mysticism and Self-Sacrifice
Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof.
When a man rejects reason as his standard of judgement only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings.
A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.
Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.
To practice the 'virtue' of faith one must be willing to suspend one's sight and one's judgment
...one must be willing to live with the unintelligible...
with that which cannot be conceptualized or integrated into the rest of one's knowledge,
and to induce a trance-like illusion of understanding.
One must be willing to repress one's critical faculty and hold it as one's guilt;
One must be willing to drown any questions that rise in protest...
...to strangle any trust of reason convulsively seeking to assert its proper function as the protector of one's life and cognitive integrity.
Counterfeit Individualism
As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights...
the principle that man is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others.
As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that man should think and judge independently... valuing nothing higher than the sovereignty of his intellect.
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