Aldous Huxley - Visionary Experience

In 1953, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of the drug Mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything was transformed. He describes his experience in The Doors of Perception and its sequel Heaven and Hell.
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell: amzn.to/2CMMuLj

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One of the most beautiful, wholesome and intelligible thing I have ever heard.

[@Dino_Medici]

Extraordinary

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The Doors of Perception are Closed, except to the Eyes of Understanding...

[@natel9019]

The medicine man would store the mushrooms in the honey.

[@geoffreynhill2833]

References John C Lilly, author of "The Centre of the Cyclone" which describes the visions JCL experienced in a state of sensory deprivation.

[@geoffreynhill2833]

Also William James' "The Varieties of Religious Experience", Henri Bergson of "Creative Evolution" fame, Irish poet AE (George Russell), Wordsworth and Blake.

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The dolphin rape is “strange” to put it mildly

[@Xenixish]

One must imagine Sartre happy

[@iankenney6602]

I have been wondering lately if it could be discovered that gemstones are compactes and crystallized remains of creatures that livesd a divinely inspired lifestyle of some sort..say they vibrated much higher than the level of expectation. That would be a nice poetic gesture that makes you get a twinkle of a feeling, inside, that Gaia is concious..or that there is some kind of spiritual magnetism of like-to-like somewhere among dualistic polar pairs that seem to bypass the psychic/matter boundary). I found a couple Emeralds near some fossils and the emeralds are shaped ridiculously similar to a lizard shaped skull. Then I started to sit and nest on that idea of gemstones being a product of physical decomposition and whether it assigns a higher level of favoring to a sort of natural quality remembrance.

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If only people had paid more care to his philosophy. His basically his predictions. It’s seems so obvious.

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Wut

[@karlshipley5142]

The subconscious mind boasts 30000 times more powerful than the conscious mind.

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Master the inner world and cast spontaneously the outer world.

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Machine elves

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Made of language

[@monty70]

Taking LSD on your deathbed…

[@ericknudten7272]

Ive always been fascinated by that. If you are comfortable with taking acid when you are on deaths door, then what could you possibly be afraid of? We need people like him today.