Knowledge and Spirit

Mystical states enter and depart with a spontaneous evanescence, generally lasting for only brief periods before fading into the light of common day. Yet in that sudden opening of a window to another reality, as in the fleeting moments of poetic apprehension received in a state of intoxication, such states give evidence of an intrinsic ‘mystical faculty of human nature, usually crushed to death by the cold facts and dry criticism of the sober hour’