c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…to say that consciousness is short term memory plus attention. This is the new buzzword, short term memory plus attention. Actually, Henry James or William James said this first, but it's just been brought forward. And if you think about it, that's a…
…little town in Colorado, and I decided I'd been terribly narrow and that it was all in the humanities. And I began reading Henry James and all this stuff. And I was into Aldous Huxley as an example of an english novelist and read antique hay, chrome…
…I discovered that I had defined myself narrowly and that I was turning into a scientist. And I was reading people like Henry James and Aldous Huxley, and they were sneering at what I was becoming and talking about a mysterious realm of human thought…
…natural world. So then I just turned upon that with a vengeance. Left off the bugs and the minerals. It became about Henry James and Fragonard and mannerism and all of this stuff. But the transition, because I was hitting adolescence at that point, was…
…little town in Colorado, and I decided I'd been terribly narrow and that it was all in the humanities. And I began reading Henry James and all this stuff. And I was into Aldous Huxley as an example of an english novelist. And red, antique hay, chrome…
…dissolve it, you know, and the linear, you know, the columns and lines. That's how narrative was until James Joyce and Henry James, and people like that showed that narrative could be broken up. Modernism is a form of primitivism. Strangely enough, the…