https://aeon.co/essays/what-it-is-really-like-to-suffer-from-schizophrenic-paranoia

“Words, tones of voice, facial and bodily expressions, apparel, any way at all that humans seem to be communicating, are at the heart of it. Of course, it’s never possible to understand another’s modes of expression perfectly. We all mishear, misread and misview to some tiny or huge extent. So we’re all sometimes confused, miffed, frightened. Some of us solve the problem by crediting good intentions to the other. Some of us ask for clarity. Some hold a simple grudge that will likely fade. Some misinterpret through habits of sarcasm and cynicism.

A few of us become paranoid.”

Actually, most of us are schizotypal (and thus inclined to paranoia) when under various kinds of stress; that is to say that schizophrenia is common to all of us, it’s just a matter of degree, context, personal history, and gradients…

“I follow orders from distant galaxies, from the President, from my dead mother. The orders come from a barking dog. The TV. Email.”

And this points up the problem with ‘synchro-mysticism’, it’s effectively a low-grade variant of paranoia…