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Subject: flu mystics


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Date Posted: 10/ 8/04 9:55:57am
In reply to: pjk 's message, "Re: flu shot" on 10/ 6/04 9:46:20pm

Hallucinations... it's funny how awful it
>is to be sick yet still experience something close to
>spiritual when in the throes. History seems to be
>littered with philosophers, mystics, writers and
>artists who endured debilitating illness throughout or
>for long periods of their lives... perhaps some
>strange link there. It's as if the physical becomes a
>metaphor for the non-corporeal and the test endured is
>transfered to the soul... I'm thinking of Theresa of
>Avila and Neitzsche off hand.

I have gotten the flu a lot...throughout my life with intense hallucinations....last year was one of the first years in a long time that I haven't gotten it.... I drank a lot of green tea throughout the fall and winter.....I always dread it as I sense it creeping into my system, but then a certainotherworldy euphoria sents in...even amidst the incantations and I am always actually greatful afterwards for the strange respite and the beyond the beyond moments.

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