c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…this is what these psychedelics achieve. You know they, as Huxley said, they dial open the valve of consciousness or as Blake implied, you know, the window of perception is cleansed and then you see through into an infinite, holographic, recursive world of…
…of interference, new properties become emergent and the entire thing complexifies. Well to my mind this is the divine imagination, this is what Blake called it, this is the only way I can conceive of it that Rupert and I were chatting last night in our…
…Affa. Affa, which any scholar of Enochian can tell you is the enochian word for nothingness. Friends. Jaw dropper. It's very interesting. Blake spoke with angels. He was the flower of english poetry at a certain point in time. Dee spoke with angels. He…
…the role. That's what I said to the ITA. I said, you know, just don't talk about it. Exemplify. Let's be it. Well, you know, Blake said a wonderful thing. He said, if I can get it right, if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will…
…experience of a lot of people, well, that concept futuristic is itself fairly modern. I mean, as recently as 200 years ago, when Blake was writing, he didn't use the word future. He used the word futurity and said, you know, and in fact, far futurity so…
…really attention to attention and appreciation of the immediate. I always think when this comes up, of William Blake's advice. Blake was, as you know, a great mystical, visionary english poet who spoke with angels and had these wonderful visions of…
…closest we can get to hardwired telepathy, you know, honest, straight talk that draws from as deep as it can, and a search for, well, Blake said, this thing, let's see if I can get it right. He said, the truth, if it is told so that it is understood,…
…understand what these psychedelic substances are. They open the doorway to creativity. They cleanse the doors of perception. And then, as Blake said, reality is perceived as it truly is, as infinite. Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with…
…Christ told Nicodemus. He said, I will come like a thief in the light. No man will know the moment of my coming. Blake talks about this. He says, though Satan's watch fiends shall see, search through all eternity for the moment, they will never find the…
…psychedelic experiences, our sexual epiphanies, our whatever it is that moves us. And I think really? Well, it's just what Blake said. Psychedelics are window washing equipment for cleansing the glass of perception that allows you to then perceive the world…
…say, well, Jose, what do you think of the fact that the forest is being cleared? The usual reply is, you know, Barry. Blake, as you know, also said religion and politics, the same thing, right? This is a political seminar. I've been waiting to ask you…
…were part of our shamanic heritage millennia ago. So freedom has become basically a project in the blacian imagination that Blake called it the divine imagination. We now dream of transcending the constraints of matter, space, time and energy themselves. I…