Mystical Anaesthesia

"While being used to reduce and shut down consciousness in its medical application, anaesthesia when partially effected was seen to produce a state of dissociation, awaking a second consciousness comparable to that observed in hypnosis, hysteria and automatic writing....

"Philosophically, the keynote of these and so many other journeys into anæsthetic mysticism suggest a kind of subjective idealism in which reality and divinity are synonymous with one’s own mental state."

Mystical Anaesthesia