The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) / quote 70 of 125

We imagine the truth

Again, and even more derisively, the materialist stance would be that this is pure imagination. And again I wouldn’t contest this, so much as to reply that such so-called explanations merely beg the question. What is imagination? Surely that is the question. Why is it so disparaged? One of the most fundamental features of tripping is that the experience is more real than normal reality. “We imagine the truth,” said Osho, summing up the idealist position in a phrase.

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