Yes I will def. look at the link - thanks.

Re Spong, I am not sure if I 100% agree with his position. That ultra-liberal position seems to suggest God, angels and demons are not "real" but just effectively figments of the imagination - or that is the impression I get. 

My view is slightly different. It is that God, angels and demons of course are real. It is just that the ability to experience or communicate with them of course is found in the mind. That of course involves an element of subjectivity and even imagination, in putting indescribable ideas into describable words. 

And "mental illness" may not be "illness" in as much as recalibrating our minds to re-hear and re-see that spiritual reality. I am not sure if that distinction is clear because it is admittedly a slight one? In fairness to Spong it isn't entirely clear what he believes himself.