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16668224 No.16668224 [Reply] [Original]

What is a good alternative to a coma for allowing a character access to the afterlife involuntarily without dying and giving them a choice as to whether they stay?

>> No.16668232

getting lost at a bon jovi concert

>> No.16668236
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>>16668232
why is this so believable?

>> No.16668270

>>16668232
Fuck that’s actually genius

>> No.16668280

>>16668224
Getting struck by lightning like in that short story by Eliade.

>> No.16668298

>>16668280
Thank you very much; I wanted to avoid something trite or cliché like most coma stories.

>> No.16668387

>>16668298
Eliade specifically used it as mythologically symbolic of initiation, like what one finds in Shamanism. If you wanted to know.

Anyway, good luck with the story anon.

>> No.16668404

>>16668224
I just recommended this in a different thread but it's always a good time to read the Timaeus. Detailed trip right there.

>> No.16668407

>>16668404
Yeah that's a fantastic work, arguably Plato's best.

>> No.16668417

mid buttsex epiphany