Hasheesh is indeed an accursed drug, and the soul at last pays a most bitter price for all its ecstasies; moreover, the use of it is not the proper means of gaining any insight, yet who shall say that at that season of exaltation I did not know things as they are more truly than ever in the ordinary state ? . . . . In the jubilance of hashish, we have only arrived by an improper pathway at the secret of that infinity of beauty which shall be beheld in heaven and earth when the veil of the corporeal drops off, and we know as we are known.
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Robert DeRopp, in the 1957 book " Drugs and the Mind ", was perhaps the first to express skepticism at Ludlow s addiction story, noting that [ n ] o one seriously interested in the effects of drugs on the mind should fail to read Ludlow s book, but accusing Ludlow of a hypertrophy of the imagination and an excessive dependence on the works of De Quincey ( although he also found " The Hasheesh Eater " to be more lively and more colorful reading than & the grossly overrated confessions of that English opium-eater . ).
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Ludlow had difficulty in finding words to describe his experiences : In the hasheesh-eater a virtual change of worlds has taken place . . . Truth has not become expanded, but his vision has grown telescopic; that which others see only as the dim nebula, or do not see at all, he looks into with a penetrating scrutiny which distance, to a great extent, can not evade . . . . To his neighbor in the natural state he turns to give expression to his visions, but finds that to him the symbols which convey the apocalypse to his own mind are meaningless, because, in our ordinary life, the thoughts which they convey have no existence; their two planes are utterly different .
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