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Stapledon, Olaf - Starmaker - Telepathic communication with the cosmos
Identifier
016241
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Better maybe to stick to selecting pictures from a stack of envelopes.
A description of the experience
Olaf Stapledon – Starmaker
sometimes the adventuring mind failed to maintain its sanity in face of the welter of misery and despair that now flooded in upon it telepathically from all the regions of the galaxy.
Sometimes the sheer difficulty of comprehending the subtleties that were revealed to it flung it into a mental breakdown from which there was no recovery.
Sometimes it became so enthralled by its telepathic adventures that it lost touch with its own life upon its native planet, so the world community, deprived of its guiding communal mind fell into disorder and decay and the exploring mind died.
Sometimes the hunger for true community and the true mental lucidity itself became obsessive and perverse.