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Benjamin Rush on the diseases of the mind
Identifier
007926
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Benjamin Rush – Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind 1812
From a part of the brain preternaturally elevated, but not diseased, the mind sometimes discovers not only unusual strength and acuteness, but certain talents it never exhibited before.. talents for eloquence, poetry, music and painting and uncommon ingenuity in several of the mechanical arts, are often involved in this state of madness…….. the disease which thus evolves these new and wonderful talents and operations of the mind may be compared to an earthquake, which by convulsing the upper strata of our globe throws upon its surface precious and splendid fossils, the existence of which was unknown to the proprietors of the soil in which they were buried