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...Varieties of Religious Experience, William James had this to say about his experience with nitrous oxide: "Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. They may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and open a region though they fail to give...
...another sequence, Adele, Angela and Agda assemble for midsummer revelry at a vast country estate. Agda is lured into the woods by the son of the hostess (Eva Dahlbeck), herself a bored creature who slips upstairs to keep a rendezvous with an artist and finds him wearing her filmiest negligee. "Marriage," Angela muses forlornly, "is like falling asleep for the rest of your life." Though Director Zetterling often seems overzealous in deploring the dilemma of women, she times her surprises so effectively that moviegoers of all sexes, married or single, will have no trouble staying awake...
...called rational consciousness, he felt, is only one special kind of consciousness, "whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different." Though one can live an entire lifetime without knowing about them, James writes, the proper drug or other stimulus will promptly make them accessible...
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