Post by Ava on Sept 12, 2018 14:03:13 GMT
Do you have this?
It seems so normal on the surface, but I think there's a lot to it.
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Huxley while under the influence of mescalin:
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It seems so normal on the surface, but I think there's a lot to it.
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Huxley while under the influence of mescalin:
"This is how one ought to see," I kept saying as I looked down at my trousers, or glanced at the
jeweled books in the shelves, at the legs of my infinitely more than Van-Goghian chair. "This is how one
ought to see, how things really are." And yet there were reservations. For if one always saw like this,
one would never want to do anything else. Just looking, just being the divine Not-self of flower, of
book, of chair, of flannel. That would be enough. But in that case what about other people? What about
human relations? In the recording of that morning's conversations I find the question constantly repeated,
"What about human relations?" How could one reconcile this timeless bliss of seeing as one ought to see
with the temporal duties of doing what one ought to do and feeling as one ought to feel? "One ought to
be able," I said, "to see these trousers as infinitely important and human beings as still more infinitely
important." One ought-but in practice it seemed to be impossible.
jeweled books in the shelves, at the legs of my infinitely more than Van-Goghian chair. "This is how one
ought to see, how things really are." And yet there were reservations. For if one always saw like this,
one would never want to do anything else. Just looking, just being the divine Not-self of flower, of
book, of chair, of flannel. That would be enough. But in that case what about other people? What about
human relations? In the recording of that morning's conversations I find the question constantly repeated,
"What about human relations?" How could one reconcile this timeless bliss of seeing as one ought to see
with the temporal duties of doing what one ought to do and feeling as one ought to feel? "One ought to
be able," I said, "to see these trousers as infinitely important and human beings as still more infinitely
important." One ought-but in practice it seemed to be impossible.
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Mescalin raises all colors to a higher power and makes the percipient aware of innumerable fine
shades of difference, to which, at ordinary times, he is completely blind. It would seem that, for Mind at
Large, the so-called secondary characters of things are primary. Unlike Locke, it evidently feels that
colors are more important, better worth attending to, than masses, positions and dimensions. Like
mescalin takers, many mystics perceive supernaturally brilliant colors, not only with the inward eye, but
even in the objective world around them. Similar reports are made by psychics and sensitives. There are
certain mediums to whom the mescalin taker's brief revelation is a matter, during long periods, of daily
and hourly experience.
shades of difference, to which, at ordinary times, he is completely blind. It would seem that, for Mind at
Large, the so-called secondary characters of things are primary. Unlike Locke, it evidently feels that
colors are more important, better worth attending to, than masses, positions and dimensions. Like
mescalin takers, many mystics perceive supernaturally brilliant colors, not only with the inward eye, but
even in the objective world around them. Similar reports are made by psychics and sensitives. There are
certain mediums to whom the mescalin taker's brief revelation is a matter, during long periods, of daily
and hourly experience.
