I dont think its ever used in negative way, what i do think is veiwed as negative for example: In my yeshiva younger bochrim come saying “ill learn but i dont want to flip out”. And for them its sort of a negative feeling. why? b/c they want to be percieved as normal, and they look at “flipped out” as not normal. This is true b/c they were brought up in a superficial environment in which they need to somehow break out. Until then they veiw it as a so called “fantasy world”. EX: When i was home last yr i saw a little boy 12-13 davening w/ alot of kavana. His freinds next to him were laughing cuz it looked funny. I would also laugh if my friend was doing some voodoo thing with alot of kavana. The solution to all this is making torah a reality to u not just a tradition. I’m not sure if this is what you were getting at, but even if its not i think one of the BIGGEST problems of our dor is the superficial world of america which clouds our minds.
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