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>>18828744
Thanks. It's a solitary road to walk on, anyway, the spiritual path, so I find myself getting up my own asshole. Just to make clear, though, I actually believe in cosmic trans-cultural shamanism (similar to what PKD experienced and talked about in VALIS -- a mystical experience which transcended any single religion, but which he found parallels to in shamanism), contact with nonhuman hyper-intelligent benevolent beings (angels, aliens, machine elves, or the like), just to spell it out so clearly it's unmistakable. Sorcery, too. But it's a dark path. Some people end up in mental asylums when they're interested in this stuff but can't integrate it into daily life.

It was Itzhak Bentov, Russian inventor and mystic, who claimed that if you wanted to find the most evolved human beings (those at the vanguard of human evolution with capabilities like extrasensory perception), look in mental hospitals. They claim they're seeing ghosts, spirits, and the like, or experiencing other inexplicable phenomena, and get called "schizophrenic."