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The truth is this second self--or rather the feeling of its presence--has been shut up so long, that we have come to look upon it as non-existent and to regard the rumours of its actual experience as hallucinations. This is why religion, mysticism, and philosophy have so hard a battle to fight in these times, a battle against man's inevitable incredulity.

-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 3 : The Overself's Presence > # 37