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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

William James

William James (1842–1910), U.S. psychologist, philosopher. "Mysticism," lectures 16-17, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902).

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