A Psychedelic Experience

And the nature within a mystical experience

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“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.” — William James

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“I went across the road, as I often did, for a cup of coffee and a sandwich. As I was stirring the coffee it suddenly turned green, then purple. I looked up, startled, and saw a huge proboscidean head, like an elephant seal. Panic seized me; I slammed a five-dollar note on the table and ran across the road to a bus on the other side. But all the passengers on the bus seemed to have smooth white heads like giant eggs, with a huge glittering eyes like the faceted compound eyes of insects — their eyes seemed to move in sudden jerks, which increased the feeling of their fearfulness and alienness.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Metaphysics…has been developed, from the first, by the union and conflict of two very different human impulses, the one urging men towards mysticism, the other urging them towar…