The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) / quote 37 of 125
Hijacked by a seventeenth-century Protestant
Exactly what had happened I couldn’t remember. One moment I had been my habitual agnostic self, the next I was a Christian fundamentalist—and the trip saw me seesawing wildly between the two. One moment I was yearning passionately for God, convulsed by emotions that seemed torn from my very depths; the next I was standing there incredulously, appalled by the whole performance. I appeared to be experiencing the emotions of another person entirely. Never before had dual personality been a real phenomenon for me, but now I saw that being haunted, or even possessed, was a frighteningly real psychic possibility. I felt exactly as though I had been hijacked by a seventeenth-century Protestant, by the kind of religious bigot I had always steered well clear of.