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On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> w=
rote:
> Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>=
 wrote:
>> > I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he had some issues, but I
>> > don't think they needed to drug him, and take all that he had
>> > learned away from him and turn him back into what he was before.
>>
>> "All that he had learned" meaning his delusions and psychoses?
>
> Indeed. If a revelation is unconnected to reality, it's misleading to
> say that one has =E2=80=9Clearned=E2=80=9D it.

But what is reality?

> Also, I don't see how anyone =E2=80=9Ctook away=E2=80=9D those experience=
s. He wrote an
> article describing them and clearly still retains those experiences as
> memories to recall as he wishes.

They made him believe they were not true.

> When someone describes the ill effects their mental illness produced,

I don't consider him to have been mentally ill.