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Dora Kaplan
Identifier
002180
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
What she actually means is that it breaks down the ego. For those of a high egotistical dsposition it helps to knock it down a bit to normal proportions
A description of the experience
From Laughing gas – nitrous oxide – edited by Michael Shedlin and David Wallechinsky
Nitrous Oxide and the Surreal Condition – Dora Kaplan
Perhaps the most beneficial aspect of the gas experience is the personal ‘revelation’ or insight. These confrontations with individual fears and problems occasionally are of such magnitude as to plummet the person into a nightmare of self-doubt and madness. Similar to LSD, the revelation can be magnified and distorted until it is uncontrollable. Unlike acid, this experience on gas is transitory, erasing itself with the next inhalation. Because the nitrous oxide facilitates the release of unconscious material it has great therapeutic value – providing profound changes in a person’s value belief system and self image.