Put me down in the column voting for the existence of partial illumination, and partial relief from cult restrictions be damned (though it's interesting to think about). But then I've never been a big fan of the excluded middle. At the very least, it's possible that a personality which disintegrated upon illumination to partially reintegrate in deep denial over being illuminated. I'd go further, and expect that there are people who lack the cultural context to understand illumination but (by traversing the Puzzle Canal or otherwise) have ended up with their minds blown.
Quote of the day:
"I don't think anyone is enslaving anyone in Mauritania. ... [but] I'd feel
very uncomfortable saying that [slavery] doesn't exist [there]." --William
H. Twaddell, deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs.
Mauritania has freed its slaves three times since 1920.
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