Epileptic Seizures and Mystical Experiences Are Part of the Human Capacity

Dostoevsky's epileptic seizures and the associated mystical experiences were part of what made him a transcendently brilliant author. A modern psychologist and psychiatrist like to denegrate freud, but i think there's a reason for that. And it was certainly not the case that his epilepsy or the experiences that were associated with it produced what you might describe as an impairment in his cognitive functions....