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venerate
deity.”
the close similarity, in chemical composition, between mescalin and adrenalin.
ergot,
schizophrenia.
prima facie
I swallowed four-tenths of a gram of mescalin dissolved in half a glass of water
We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves.
embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude.
of island universes.
which, to Blake, to Swedenborg, to Johann Sebastian Bach, were home?
autohypnosis,
Æ.
revolutionary. Half an hour
The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern.
Cubist’s-eye
Mind at Large.
language gives access to the accumulated records of other people’s experience,
Through these permanent or temporary by-passes there flows, not indeed the perception “of everything that is happening everywhere in the universe”
utilitarian
glucose to the brain cells.
He can’t be bothered with them, for the good reason that he has better things to think about.
world. As Mind at Large seeps past the no longer watertight valve, all kinds of biologically useless things start to happen. In some cases there may be extra-sensory perceptions. Other persons discover a world of visionary beauty. To others again is revealed the glory, the infinite value and meaningfulness of naked existence, of the given, unconceptualized event. In the final stage of egolessness there is an “obscure knowledge” that All
inestimably precious to him as an intellectual and spiritual being, but unnecessary to his survival as an animal.
Van Gogh,
For the artist as for the mescalin taker draperies are living hieroglyphs
unfathomable
“What about human relations?”
new-born Not-self,
Vermeer.”
Bodhisattva,
The totality is present even in the broken pieces.
All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, where the departed soul
The schizophrenic is like a man permanently under the influence of mescalin,
from murderous violence at one end of the scale to catatonia, or psychological suicide,
“O nobly born, let not thy mind be distracted.” That was the problem—to remain undistracted. Undistracted by the memory of past sins, by imagined pleasure, by the
