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Harrington, Alan - A Visit to Inner space 4
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015533
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
A Visit to Inner Space – Alan Harrington [from LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug edited by David Soloman]
The physical world I could see had begun slowly to come apart. No cubic inch of space had to do with any other. Everything in my field of vision turned into bright jelly. There was no time and place, nothing but a flow. I got up and waded through the room, making my way unsteadily. Around me the music, the fire and the candle dripping, the lights of nearby buildings, all combined and flowed. Yet I could see Ralph and Arthur watching me and I saw my own situation with terrible clarity. I had gone too far and couldn’t get back! I called to Ralph, remembering what Arthur had said in the beginning “… if you get hung up, always move towards your partner” I did crying “Help me. I want to get back”
The jelly before my eyes separated. The universe cracked into bright globule and separated; then I was in little pieces, about not to exist anymore, and being borne away on something like a jet stream, and this was the stream Arthur had mentioned, streaming unconsciousness that one was supposed not to fight. Let the ego die. Go with it – but I fought upstream all the way. Ralph caught my hand and said “Go with it!” But I said “Get me out. I want to go home. Where is she?”
They were like people trying to help me in my envelope of flowing air, not being able to do anything but sympathise. But we could see each other with amazing clarity all this time. They were making notes on me! Arthur had a chart