Abruptly psychotic at 24, Susannah Cahalan, AB ’07, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, when in fact she had a rare type of brain encephalitis.
When she recovered, she wrote a New York Times bestseller, Brain on Fire (Free Press, 2012). The story could h... See more
Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
This was the first poem I ever memorized.... See more
“Normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.”
—William James
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