“People who pass from stage two hallucination to stage three often experience a sensation of a vortex or rotating tunnel around them, and soon have hallucinations filled with iconic images, not just signs. …It is here that "monsters" appear, part human, part beast, known as therianthropes.”

—  Richard Leakey

Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)

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Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician 1944

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