INTO THE TWILIGHT ZONES

Mike Jay. Stranger Than Fiction; Essays by Mike Jay. Daily Grail Publishing, 2018.

Mike Jay will be familiar to Magonia readers as the author of books and magazine articles on the ‘twilight zones’ of the human mind, with titles which have covered the history of drugs and other mind-altering processes.

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VIRTUAL BANALITY, PART 2

Since writing ‘Virtual Banality’ (below), about low-strangeness paranormal experiences, our occasional columnist The Pelican has drawn to my attention an incident described in his column published in Magonia 98, September 2008.🔻

VISIONS AND DISBELIEF

Oliver Sacks. Hallucinations. Picador, London, 2012

A number of varieties of hallucinatory experience are described, but this is by no means an exhaustive study, as such experiences are more common than is generally realised. Dr Sacks has made extensive use of the experiences of his patients, and of his own experiences. It was not until he was thirty that Dr Sacks started to experiment with drugs.
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