Tripping Without the Drugs – Fresh Take on “Spontaneous Mystical Experience”

Viewing the cosmos close-up, from astronomer and sci-fi writerCamilleFlammarion‘s L’atmosphère: météorologie populaire(1888)

In the pastdecade especially, my interest in the puzzles of personal, unexplained “mystical” phenomena has been remorselessly worn away. It is as though science, or at least scientific theory, had gone to battle against my lust for wonder. True, countless other sources of wonder still surround me, but my own “spontaneous mystical experience” naturally was the one I like...