…and Japanese paradises, Again and again you will find these descriptions which correspond exactly to the descriptions given by Weir Mitchell and Havelock Ellis of the peyote experience or given in the various accounts of visionaries of their spontaneous…

…light. As an example of how this colored light of the lower kind of visions operates, Let me quote the case of Weir Mitchell, who was a well-known psychologist at the end of the last century, who described his experiences with peyote, which are perfectly…

…the things which people see in this visionary world. The ruby or the emerald are like these transparent fruits, as Weir Mitchell says, which the visionary sees encrusting the rocks and the architecture of the visionary world. And they have the quality,…

…in Chinese literature, always this same picture where really we have reproduced almost word for word the kind of vision which Weir Mitchell had under the influence of Peyote. And similarly in the world of art, there are many aspects of art which are…