loss of sensation of self

“Thanks to that peculiar inherency of theirs called ‘suggestibility’, which I mentioned before and which had been acquired in their common presences, all the surrounding beings, of course, believed this as they call it ‘propaganda’ of theirs, and, there usually being in these cases a quantity of talk about it, there was gradually crystallized in each of them the periodically arising factor which actualizes in their common presences that strange and relatively prolonged ‘psychic state’, which I should call the ‘loss of sensation of self’; in consequence of which, as also usually happens there, they set about destroying everywhere, not only these ‘wonder beds’, but also the existence of those beings who used them. BTG XLII

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