Below And Above

In Poul Anderson's The Night Face, the usually sane "Gwydiona," human inhabitants of the planet Gwydion, annually experience insanity and misinterpret their temporary irrationality as (trans-rational) "God." We have discussed the "pre/trans fallacy" before, quoting both Ken Wilber and CS Lewis. We mention the fallacy here again because we have just reread another reference to it by Lewis who remarks that a human being momentarily plunged back into animal consciousness:

"...would have emerged believing that he had grasped the absolute: for the states below reason and the states above it have, by their common contrast to the life we know, a certain superficial resemblance."

-That Hideous Strength, CHAPTER 14, 3, p. 670. 

A profound observation, in my opinion, also relevant to Anderson's Brain Wave. (Also, Glimpse Or Trance.)