You seem to have gotten mania under control and made it do useful work for you. I'd love to hear how you did that. I can by now induce mania at will, but it always ends up with me believing something silly, becoming terribly confused or working endlessly on meaningless tangents.

On a more personal note, I've mostly given up on all this spiritual work based on some deeply unsatisfying and disappointing experiences (very nicely described by James Kent on Tripzine). I'm trying to reintegrate some minimalistic, purely pragmatic aspects of it, but haven't really succeeded yet. I'm looking forward to your posts.