
#155: How to be delusional

In the circumstances, it makes no sense to aim for sanity; we should fix instead on the goal of achieving a wise, knowledgeable and self-possessed relationship with our manifold insanities, or what can be termed ‘sane insanity’. What separates the sane insane from the simply insane is the honest, personable and accurate grasp they have on what is n
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without some sort of delusion, some sort of magic.