The emergence from this state occurred some 15 or so minutes later and was remarkably quick, fit to burst with a sense of extreme euphoria and a supreme understanding of how the ego-construct whilst necessary to function in consensus reality establishes the illusion of separation between persons and objects. "I am you, and you are me" becomes understood and any doubt about this has been extinguished.
With me, as with every other person of whom I have heard, the keynote of the experience is the tremendously exciting sense of an intense metaphysical illumination. Truth lies open to the view in depth beneath depth of almost blinding evidence. The mind sees all logical relations of being with an apparent subtlety and instantaniety to which its normal consciousness offers no parallel; only as sobriety returns, the feeling of insight fades, and one is left staring vacantly at a few disjointed words and phrases, as one stares at a cadaverous-looking snowpeak from which sunset glow has just fled, or at a black cinder left by an extinguished brand.
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