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Michaux, Henri - Miserable Miracle Mescaline - Tiny incomplete creatures
Identifier
004038
Type of Spiritual Experience
Number of hallucinations: 1
Background
One of the characteristic aspects of spiritual experience – especially with drugs like laudanum, opium, cannabis and so on is that the images seen are not complete. It is worth comparing Michaux's experience with that of Lewis Carroll.
A description of the experience
Henri Michaux – Miserable Miracle Mescaline
After taking hashish
Often the creatures seen were tiny, …………. And curiously, often incomplete – a characteristic of Hashish. For example, half an arm would be missing, the middle part at that and completely, no connection at all, yet the arm, not in the least inconvenienced, would do what it had to do