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Benjamin, Walter - On Hashish - The dive
Identifier
001863
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
On Hashish – Walter Benjamin
The following sentence – 'important thoughts must be put to sleep for a long time' – may relate to the previously mentioned process of deferment in the expression of a thought, that hesitation which can sometimes, as was said, lead to a total suppression of the thought. There follows, in a 'deep phase, in which I descend almost at will, and to a mighty depth 'the third great secret'. This is in fact a crystallisation of the basic character of this particular intoxication. It is designated 'the secret of wandering'.