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many details and particulars not actually there, thus justifying the discredit with which
these phenomena are received by rational and thoughtful people.

So we shall reserve the word “vision” for experiences that occur in awareness and
sincerity. Nevertheless, in both cases, in “hallucination” as well as in vision, what is seen
does correspond to something quite real, although it is sometimes much deformed in the
transcription.

— The Mother*

*The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother, Volume 10. Cent. ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
Ashram Trust; 1977, pp. 41-2.

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