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Dostoevsky epilepsy induced ecstatic experiences “so strong and sweet that for a few seconds of such bliss one could give up ten years of life, perhaps all of life” Thread of reports of extreme bliss states 🧵 Alexander Shulgin on MDMA: “The woodpile is so beautiful, about all the joy and beauty that I can stand. I am afraid to turn around and face the mountains, for fear they will overpower me. But I did look, and I am astounded… I feel absolutely clean inside, and there is nothing but pure euphoria. I have never felt so great, or believed this to be possible… Everyone must get to experience a profound state like this… I feel totally peaceful. I have lived all my life to get here, and I feel I have come home… I am complete.” Bertrand Russell on love: “ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy… In the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined” Birth of a child: “When I first saw her face it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen… I felt like I understood the purpose and meaning of life at that moment. I didn’t know it was possible to feel the way I felt when I saw her. I was the happiest I have ever been… That moment is something that I will cherish forever… It was almost a euphoric feeling. It was an intense calm and contentment.” Epilepsy patient: “The immense joy that fills me is above physical sensations. It is a feeling of total presence, an absolute integration of myself, a feeling of unbelievable harmony of my whole body and myself with life, with the world, with the ‘All'”