Hallucinations. A state produced sometimes by physiological disorders, sometimes by mediumship, and at others by drunkenness. But the cause that produces the visions has to be sought deeper than physiology.
Hallucination
(1) Perception of objects or beings with no reality or not present within normal sensory scanning range. (2) Experience of sensations with no exterior cause, usually as a result of nervous dysfunction.
· An autoscopic hallucination.
· Cerebral anoxia or lack of oxygen to the brain.
How common is the phenomena?
When Mars is afflicted in Leo it gives a fiery, violent temper and a liability to fever inflammatory diseases, palpitation of the heart, hallucinations, biliousness.
I say it again, such oblivion and hallucination -- if you call it so -- are only a merciful law of nature and strict justice. At any rate, it is a far more fascinating prospect than the orthodox golden harp with a pair of wings.
It is no answer to that to say: "hallucination"; for that explains nothing; because when you have said "hallucination", the next question that arises is: "What is hallucination?" These hallucinations are very instructive.
Timewave: Matthew Watkins: Autopsy for a Mathematical Hallucination? (Introduction by Terence McKenna)
John Sheliak: Delination, Specification and Formalization of the TWZ Data Set (stupid encrypted PDF)
Calendar Cycles: 2012: Timewave ...
a still more exalted spiritual region which takes a positive hold upon the reason and offers revelations which are not of a natural order, and which cannot exist in these lower regions, and which are not merely phantasies, illusions or hallucinations ...
The term "hallucination" is meaningless to the occultist or esotericist. Because all experiences are real, there is no such thing as a "hallucination".
Still, though the Salpétrière hysterics have not won back Alsace and Lorraine, it is nevertheless true that many great movements have sprung from fraud or hallucination. May it not have been so with Joan?
It might be question whether the similar phenomena might occur in a veridical dream or hallucination.
If the writings attributed to Mohammed be considered as merely the hallucinations of an epileptic--and for that reason discounted--his Christian detractors should beware lest with the doctrines of the Prophet they also undermine the very teachings ...
My aim was to show that delusions and hallucinations were not just specific symptoms of mental disease but also had a human meaning.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections; Student Years (1961) ...
While it is impossible to test the veracity of every such report, I can say that those which derived from interviews are unlikely to be the result of intentional misrepresentation or some sort of hallucination.
The drugs being speed, hallucinations, downers, alcohol, heroine, coffee and tobacco, i started to gain Will power over my life. For no more was i chained to those things that society has given unto us to lose our control.
 See also: World, Spirit, Spiritual, Ritual, Death
  
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