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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Deikman, Arthur J., M.D.".
Dr. Arthur J. Deikman of Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
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1967/03/08 |
TLS to Merton |
The enclosed paper describes the experimental work that I have done and the conclusions I have |
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[enclosure mentioned is not extant] experiments concerning the mystical experience / liked Merton's comments on the papers of Drs. Prince and Savage - "Mystical States and Regression" in the Bucke Society Newsletter
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1967/03/14 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I am happy to have had a chance to read your paper on "De-automatization and the Mystic Experience", |
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"the point of ascetic disciplines is to liberate the subject from automatism and routine in perception" - LSD a "short cut to de-automatization" / contradictions of applying the language of science (quantity, observation) to the mystical experience / Maritain's Degrees of Knowledge/ pure gratuity of the mystical experience
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