“I felt that on a basis of a "search for the miraculous" it would be possible to unite together a very large number of people who were no longer able to swallow the customary forms of lying and living in lying.”

— P. D. Ouspensky , book In Search of the Miraculous

In Search of the Miraculous (1949)

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