In his first video, “You Are a Receiver,”23 Silva explains it like this: “It’s creative inspiration or divine madness or that kind of connection to something larger than ourselves that makes us feel like we understand the intelligence that runs throughout the universe.” The Greeks called that sudden understanding anamnesis. Literally, “the forgetting of the forgetting.” A powerful sense of remembering. Nineteenth century psychologist William James experienced this during his Harvard experiments24 with nitrous oxide and mescaline, noting it’s “the extremely frequent phenomenon, that sudden
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