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Хотел написать, что нашел вашу цитату Эриксона, где Милтон описывает, что как побывал в середине нигде.
NIRVANA OR AUTOHYPNOSIS AS A DISSOCIATION FROM ALL SENSE MODALITIES
On one occasion Erickson was doing some experimental work with K on stopped vision
(Erickson, 1967), wherein she experienced being in “the middle of nowhere.” Erickson
recalled the following:
E: I was in the backyard a year ago in the summertime. I was, wondering what
far-out experiences I’d like to have. As I puzzled over that, I noticed that I was
sitting out in the middle of nowhere. I was an object in space.
K: There you have it: the middle of nowhere.
E: I was just an object in space. Of all the buildings I couldn’t see an outline. I
couldn’t see the chair in which I was sitting; in fact, I couldn’t feel it.
R: You spontaneously experienced that vision?
E: It was the most far-out thing I could do!
R: That was the most far-out thing you could do?
E: You can’t get more far-out than that!
R: It just happened to you as you were wondering about what you could do?
E: Yes.
R: An unconscious responding?
E: And that was my unconscious’ full response.
R: I see; you can’t get more far-out than that.
E: What more far-out could happen?
K: You were just floating or just a nothingness?
E: I was just an object and all alone with me was an empty void. No buildings,
earth, stars, sun.
K: What emotions did you experience? Did you——curiosity or fear or
apprehension?
E: It was one of the most pleasing experiences. What is this? Tremendous
comfort. I knew that I was doing something far-out. And I was really doing it!
And what greater joy is there than doing what you want to do? Inside the stars, the
planets, the beaches. I couldn’t feel the weight. I couldn’t feel the earth. No matter
how much I pushed down my feet, I couldn’t feel anything.
R: That sounds like a spontaneous experience of nirvana or samadhi wherein
Indian yogis say they experience “the void.” You feel that is so?
E: Yes. The far-out experience of negating all reality-related stimuli. R: That’s
what the yogis train themselves to do.
E: Yes, just negating the stimuli from the reality objects.
K: You found that pleasurable?
E: I always find when I can do something, it’s pleasurable.