So Moses went of into the hills for a few days without food or water, Jesus went into the desert for a few days without food or water, Mohammed went to live in a cave for a few days probably without food or water, the Budha sat down by a river bank for a long time without food or water. There is a common theme here somewhere.

Loved his work, but you'll never reduce him to a binary. Reality is what we experience not concrete fact and constantly changing. Like quantum mechanics, the cat is dead and alive not dead or alive.

I think he had a mindset which was already receptive to the supernatural, he made a living as a writer from this vivid imagination in the first place. It’s not surprising to me that he imagined what he interpreted as a vision of the apocalypse.

And he was provably drug-free? I'm thinking of LSD, or mushrooms........