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Kenosis, theophany, satori, samadhi, certain types of delusional psychoses, the categorical positive transference in psycho-analysis, 'confession' under communist interrogation … all of these experiences or states of mind, and quite possibly all religious experience—all
represent a surrender of the self to a 'superior' power in the face of surroundings which are seemingly or actually hostile.