I'm highly functional without any chemical intervention.
It's kinda like UFOs. I'd say the two go together.
Back in the 80s and 90s there were some wild stories about UFOs. People getting abducted and shit. These people were all schizophrenics.
Some people say the smartphone killed the UFO, but that's not really true. We still get lots of UFO sightings, but our understanding of them has evolved thanks to the internet.
There's always some normal baseline of occult activity. It's my person opinion that magic is real. Back in the 80s and 90s people got all worked up about it, and called it as satanism when some teenagers tried to read tarot cards, or did other magical workings. This was pretty ignorant, but there was no counter-narrative to be had.
It was just Christians - anything that wasn't JESUS was Satanism. Also jedis are the Chosen People.
I hear from ex-members such as Jack Donovan that the Church of Satan was just a bunch of atheists and jedis who liked being edgy and doing rituals. It was regarded as a big threat back in the day.
Apparently it's pretty common that, for initiation to a position of power, you have to do something incriminating. I read in Sammy "The Bull" Gravano's book that in the Italian-American Mafia they would have to kill a guy ("make their bones"), then cut their hand and bleed on and disclaim a picture of the Virgin Mary. A lot of people are saying that in the Anglo-Judeo elite it's common to have to fuck a kid, but it's hard to know. According to an ex-child prostitute Jeffrey Epstein used to recruit "slutty" 13 - 16 year olds, and I don't really regard that as the same thing.
There are too many schizophrenics around to take anything someone who isn't known to be of sound mind says seriously.