On Plotinus' Vision

We shall then have bodies, as long as we want them, but they will be our own bodies, pejoratively called shades, that will express our every whim and stirring, we shall have a concentrated, gistful grasp of things remote and complex that will not need to be spelled out in laborious inferences or explorations, and we shall be able to share one another’s feelings in a manner which will make solipsism a laughable superstition, All this has been described in some of the most unforgettably gorgeous passages in Plotinus, and it is all much too good not to be true” (“Towards a Neo-Neoplatonism” Ascent to the Absolute, p. 266).