New York Times Book Review cover article about how psychedelics alter the mind: Describes multiple personality, without realizing or mentioning it

The essence of multiple personality is to have more than one “I.”

“Multiplying my authorial persona — or was I dividing it? — in this way allowed me to capture at least some of the paradoxicality and sheer weirdness of the psychedelic experience as no single, stable narrator could hope to do. By this point in my story there were three distinct I’s telling it: the voyager reporting from inside the experience; the I who observes that first-person poof into Post-its (who is also “inside” the experience but at a remove); and, finally, the ‘outside’ narrator…” (1).

This cover story in yesterday’s New York Times Book Review is one more example of how people have multiple personality types of experiences without realizing or mentioning it.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/books/review/psychedelics-how-to-change-your-mind.html