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by hnzix 2558 days ago
Kanye West has also had eerily similar religious hallucinations. [0]

When I recounted the story to a friend who is a drug and alcohol recovery nurse, she snorted and said these kind of pink elephant episodes are common in recovering alcoholics. Although to play the spiritual devil's advocate, one could argue that mortifying the flesh has long been a mystical practice (accessing the etheric plane, if one believes in that modality).

Jung's Red Book [1], written and illustrated during a (debatable) psychotic break and only recently released from his archives in 2009, is also a fascinating attempt to integrate the spiritual with the scientific.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/philip-k-dick...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Book_(Jung)

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Thanks for those links, fascinating