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Weir Mitchell - The Effects of Anhalonium Lewinii [part 2]
Identifier
004925
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
S Weir Mitchell – from The Effects of Anhalonium Lewinii [the mescal button] British Medical Journal 1896
After an endless display of less beautiful marvels I saw that which deeply impressed me. An edge of a huge cliff seemed to project over a gulf of unseen depth. My viewless enchanter set on the brink a huge bird claw of stone. Above, from the stem or leg, hung a fragment of the same stuff. This began to unroll and float out to a distance which seemed to me to represent Time as well as immensity of Space. Here were miles of rippled purples, half transparent and of ineffable beauty. Now and then soft golden clouds floated from these folds, or a great shimmer went over the whole of the rolling purples and things like green birds fell from it, fluttering down into the gulf below