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Arthur, James D - 14 Letting go
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011331
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Salvia Divinorum – J D Arthur
As I went deeper into the state, other more subtle feelings surfaced. It seemed that to enter the state tenaciously holding on to a thought was rude, almost belligerent. One was entering a deep transcendent experience, and to carry in any conceptual baggage, as if to demand its validation, was a demonstration of disrespect. It was not that anyone or anything would be offended, rather, that the acquisition of this state of trance was the result of several factors, one of which, it seems, is a type of openness or humility.
Of course, this was my own subjective assessment, and I don't mean to paint with too broad a brush. The particular state that I, myself, was entering necessitated these conclusions; it demanded a more or less total break with consensual reality.