Chase McQuade
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I have had an awakening through schizophrenia. Here are some of the poems and stories I have had to help me through it. Please enjoy!
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When Thoughts Become Judge
When Thought Becomes the Judge The tragedy of thought is not that it exists, but that it so easily turns against itself. What was meant to illuminate begins to interrogate. What was meant to guide begins to prosecute. Without clarity, the mind slips into a subtle courtroom, and there it sits—judge, jury, and accused—repeating the same familiar sentences as though they were revelations rather than rehearsals.
By Chase McQuadeabout 8 hours ago in Psyche
Moral Clarity
Moral clarity is often mistaken for judgment. We tend to imagine it as the ability to distinguish right from wrong with certainty, to divide the world neatly into opposing camps of good and evil. Yet moral clarity, in its truest sense, is not a verdict passed upon the world. It is an orientation toward it. It is not the act of condemning or approving, but the capacity to perceive what is real without distortion. Moral clarity is the quiet alignment of perception with reality itself.
By Chase McQuadeabout 10 hours ago in Critique
The Seed Of Certainty
The Seed of Certainty You realize, at some point, that there is a deep part of you that has been practicing—quietly and persistently—being correct all the time. This aspect has never announced itself. It has never demanded authority or recognition. It does not argue, perform, or posture. It simply observes. It listens. It tests. It refines. While other parts of the mind rush to conclusions, cling to opinions, or defend identities, this part waits. It has always waited. And it has always known when something was true and when it was not.
By Chase McQuadeabout a month ago in Psyche
The American Home
What we call the home is the smallest form of government. Within it, law and liberty find their first meaning. The man and the woman, by their union, establish the first republic—the sacred household where justice, mercy, and responsibility are first practiced.
By Chase McQuadeabout a month ago in 01
The American Literal Mind
🇺🇸 The Literal Mind Reading the world as scripture; understanding through the factual. The world is a living text, and the literal mind is the reader who does not interpret it through fancy, but through faith in what is. To see literally is not to see narrowly—it is to see with reverence for reality itself. The literal mind does not seek hidden meaning first; it seeks what stands before it, confident that truth, when read rightly, will reveal its own depth.
By Chase McQuade2 months ago in Writers
The Moral Thread
The Moral Thread: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Voices, Tools, and Authorship Phenomenology begins with what is given. It does not begin with explanation, diagnosis, mythology, or theory, but with experience as it is lived. It asks what appears, how it appears, and under what conditions it changes. It asks what becomes visible when interpretation is suspended long enough for structure to reveal itself. From this standpoint, schizophrenia does not first present itself as an illness. It presents itself as a reconfiguration of experience—a shift in how meaning, intention, and authorship are perceived. What is usually implicit becomes explicit. What normally remains hidden behind function and habit becomes visible as machinery. The mind, rather than concealing its processes, exposes them.
By Chase McQuade2 months ago in Psyche
Schizophrenia as Recursive Saturation
Schizophrenia as Recursive Saturation Schizophrenia behaves recursively. By recursion, I mean a repeated action in search of meaning—or in the acquisition of more meaning. It is not simply repetition for its own sake, but repetition with function. Even the word itself points toward this structure: schizophrenia translates roughly to “split mind.” This split is not merely between thoughts, but between processes—between the mind that experiences and the mind that interprets that experience.
By Chase McQuade2 months ago in Psyche
The Ten Basic Psychological Needs
🌿 The Ten Basic Psychological Needs: Why Your Life Feels the Way It Feels. Most people go through life feeling something is “off” without ever knowing why. We feel drained, unseen, unappreciated, overwhelmed, or disconnected — and we assume it’s just the way life is.
By Chase McQuade2 months ago in Psyche
The Moral Thread of Innovation
I. The Nature of Innovation In Pan-Dai, every innovation is born of motion. It begins as Self stirring toward purpose, shaping the world through form. But no innovation exists without a moral thread woven into its creation. The moral thread is the quiet clarity that directs motion. It is the intention that steadies the hand, the awareness that prevents misuse, and the boundary that keeps innovation aligned with truth.
By Chase McQuade2 months ago in Futurism
