I have been personally moved by numerous academic colleagues who, for example, have witnessed a table levitating in graduate school or concluded that spirits are real, or who refuse to go back to this or that psychedelically induced altered state precisely to avoid encountering terrifying entities. Once was enough, or more than enough. Their fear and caution are palpable, ethically fraught, and ontologically traumatic. These events alter, redirect, and focus entire lives. Why are such historical facts ignored now, boxed off as something ridiculous? Why are some of the most astonishing
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