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It is impossible to convey an idea of the torrential character of the identification of opposites as it streams through the mind in this experience. I have sheet after sheet of phrases dictated or written during the intoxication, which to the sober reader seem meaningless drivel, but which at the moment of transcribing were fused in the fire of infinite rationality.... Let me transcribe a few sentences. What's mistake but a kind of take? What's nausea but a kind of -usea? Sober, drunk, -unk, astonishment. Everything can become the subject of criticism -- How criticise without something[…]
Pearl Brilmyer William James on his experimental use of nitrous oxide in _The Varieties of Religious Experience_.
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Pearl Brilmyer William James on his experimental use of nitrous oxide in _The Varieties of Religious Experience_.
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