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Famous French author Guy de Maupassant describes the psychedelic effects of ether
Just to be clear, I don't condone the use of legal or illegal psychedelic substances. However, I think we can probably agree that their effects on the human psyche is quite fascinating. Anyone who has experienced something like this knows how painfully ineffable the experience is, which is why authors are perhaps the right people to make such an attempt (small nod to Aldous Huxley).
The following is a quote from the short story "Dreams" by Guy de Maupassant, who had had first-hand experience of the effects of ether:
"It was not like the dreams caused by hasheesh or the somewhat sickly
visions that come from opium; it was an amazing acuteness of reasoning, a
new way of seeing, judging and appreciating the things of life, and with
the certainty, the absolute consciousness that this was the true way.
"And the old image of the Scriptures suddenly came back to my mind.
It seemed to me that I had tasted of the Tree of Knowledge, that all the
mysteries were unveiled, so much did I find myself under the sway of a
new, strange and irrefutable logic. And arguments, reasonings, proofs
rose up in a heap before my brain only to be immediately displaced by
some stronger proof, reasoning, argument. My head had, in fact, become a
battleground of ideas. I was a superior being, armed with invincible
intelligence, and I experienced a huge delight at the manifestation of my
power."
#entertainment
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Just to be clear, I don't condone the use of legal or illegal psychedelic substances. However, I think we can probably agree that their effects on the human psyche is quite fascinating. Anyone who has experienced something like this knows how painfully ineffable the experience is, which is why authors are perhaps the right people to make such an attempt (small nod to Aldous Huxley).
The following is a quote from the short story "Dreams" by Guy de Maupassant, who had had first-hand experience of the effects of ether:
"It was not like the dreams caused by hasheesh or the somewhat sickly
visions that come from opium; it was an amazing acuteness of reasoning, a
new way of seeing, judging and appreciating the things of life, and with
the certainty, the absolute consciousness that this was the true way.
"And the old image of the Scriptures suddenly came back to my mind.
It seemed to me that I had tasted of the Tree of Knowledge, that all the
mysteries were unveiled, so much did I find myself under the sway of a
new, strange and irrefutable logic. And arguments, reasonings, proofs
rose up in a heap before my brain only to be immediately displaced by
some stronger proof, reasoning, argument. My head had, in fact, become a
battleground of ideas. I was a superior being, armed with invincible
intelligence, and I experienced a huge delight at the manifestation of my
power."
#entertainment
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