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“When we follow the reversal of normal experience, we find ourselves in an unusual, nearly mad experience. Being in an almost mad experience is not something we should fear: only in such experience are we jarred out of our common sense opinions and beliefs. It opens our minds to other ideas and thought. It makes us think.”

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Leonard Lawlor

Leonard Lawlor, born in 1954, is a scholar whose profession and category are unknown. His life experience and contributions are limited by available information. more

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