Thanks for the critique i guess.

I did offer the disclaimer, which was my focus on safety.

I am not offering a diagnostic but just suggestions, which are different then recommendations. It does not sound as if he requires any health treatment based upon what he has said, and I do not feel its a health and safety issue.

I do not live in brazil but have studied brazlian belief systems in spiritualism which are pretty fantastic, excuse me for generalizing. As far as the world is considered western concepts of a materialistic highly rationalized world are actually in the minority. We live in a monophasic world view that embraces one mode of perception over all others. Many or most of the planets cultures (even catholics in latin america) have a polyphasic perspective on reality embracing multiple states of consciousness. I am not making an appeal to belief but stating the fact that this is so. Western society is in the minority here. Within polyphasic societies the experiences had in dreams or in altered states in general are given as much validity as the waking state and are not pathologized as they are in this society. There are members of our society who have a polyphasic value system that they place on altered states of awareness and hold that the experiences had within these states are as real and valued as the waking state as well.

Because some one believes in spirits does not make them a threat to others or gravely disabled.