DUMB, FUNNY, EXISTENTIALLY RELEVANT

Just to tie together mysticism, Lenny Bruce, dumb/funny, and the holiday season, here is an excerpt from the Horgan book mentioned below:

"Zaehner denigrated the experience [a mescalin-induced giggle-fit] as 'trivial' and 'anti-religious.' The Catholic theologian was either unfamiliar with or dismissive of the notion of the laughing Buddha, whose liberation from this vale of tears manifests itself as belly-jiggling mirth [Buddha, Santa, whatever... - MoF]. 'Good and evil reconciled in a laugh!' William James scribbled down just after inhaling nitrous oxide."