c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…imagination into the human scale. It's like a god that we wish to call down and draw to earth. I mean this is why William Blake called it the divine imagination because it is the four gated city it is the flying saucer. We are on a journey to meet…
…and that he would be representing the creative evolutionary impulse. I will represent the divine imagination, the imagination a La William Blake. In other words this domain, this legacy of the human mind in which culture and dream and personal and historical…
…earth and space or shall we build them north of the amygdala? And it will be the same kind of thing. The imagination, as William Blake saw so clearly, is where we want to be. We are the creatures of the imagination and it is the realm of beauty and…
…experiences are of worthless. Now of course, in the same way that we can give value to the experiences, let's say of William Blake or Immanuel Spiegel, as I've been reading in the blog post in the same way that the psychedelic society as Terence calls…
…But somehow it seems clear that putting faith in the imagination will not play a fault. And that, you know, if you read William Blake, this is what he's saying. He's saying that to be at play in the divine imagination is what is happening. And he even…
…language of Milton, Chaucer and Shakespeare will be able to do with the psychedelic experience. I mean, my God, in William Blake you get the feeling that English could do staggering things with the psychedelic experience. Places in Andrew Marvel. But all…
…that's a way for Mother Nature to then enter into human history. I mean, I'm fairly mystical about democracy, sort of like William Blake. So how are you preparing for 2012 yourself, personally? Well, by going way out on a limb, I guess. People ask me,…
…great insight, your moments of great empowerment. Everything is flowing through your hands at the moment that you are aware of it. William Blake, who, in a way, set this engine going a couple of centuries ago, said, what is the price of experience? Is it…
…No, it is bought with all that a man has, his wife, his home, his children. Now, this is not a pessimistic message, and William Blake was not a pessimistic guy. He was the same guy who told us that if we could but cleanse the doors of perception, we…
…the information transfer network, the media. We have to set in motion memes, models that will attract loyalty. Remember last year I quoted William Blake and I said, if the truth can can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed. It's as simple…
…of impermanence, if you can open up to it, and again, this key word, open, the open system survives. Then you discover what William Blake said, you know, infinity in a grain of sand. That's the way to cheat the grim reaper. Strangely enough, the way you…
…world that psilocybin and DMT and a few other not well known or widely distributed plant hallucinogens induce. I think it was William Blake who said, the truth cannot be told so as to be understood without being believed. And this is the kind of…
…separation. It's like birth. The metaphor is trivial but perfect. It is. There is a possibility of damage, incorrect activity. Again, William Blake, who said that as you start into the spiral, there is the possibility of falling from the golden track into…
…quality of being visual information. To answer your question, Arthur, that seems to make this logos believable in the way that I quoted William Blake when he said, the truth cannot be told. And you do believe it. You do believe it. But I was going to…
…an actual moment of transition. But in any case, this is vision. Now you're playing in the major leagues. This is what William Blake was talking about. This is not where you see geometric shapes and shifting fields of color, but you see stygian lakes and…
…don't make an appeal through argument or metaphor. They compel belief because they are able to present themselves as imagery. You know, William Blake said, if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed. And so these things have.…
…an anticipation of the future. What's happening is there truly is an anticipation of the future. And visionaries like William Blake or the author of revelations are actually people who, by virtue of some fortuitous confluence of circumstance, space, time,…
…you need to feel any urgency, because that will quite naturally percolate out in the mix. Many of you have heard me quote William Blake. It's always worth repeating. He said, if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed. In…
…so fond of, Meister Eckart and San Juan de la Cruz and so forth, were actually describing the same reality that he was and William Blake that he was getting into. So I wanted to pursue this. And this was like 1962 or something. And I was about 14…
…are, seem to demand mathematical metaphors. And people with no previous association with mathematics are driven to mathematical metaphors. William Blake, the english poet, talked about the spiral of necessity. And if you remember, in the 10th book of Plato's…
…electronic media. As long as we can be allowed to meet like this and talk, we can win. Because, you know, it was William Blake who said a wonderful thing. He said, the truth cannot be told so as to be understood without being believed. Do you…
…in relationship to nature that is different from the path of science? In a way, it's only a shift of emphasis. William Blake said, attend the minute particulars. Attend the minute particulars. This is very good advice for science, and it is very good…
…dotted and the t's crossed. All we have to understand is that this is where we're headed and it's been on paper since William Blake. He said, you know, the divine imagination is the course of futurity. Well, here we are in futurity. Folks, and I am not…
…world that psilocybin and DMT and a few other not well known or widely distributed plant hallucinogens induce. I think it was William Blake who. Said, the truth cannot be told so as to be understood without being believed. And this is the kind of…
…It's like birth. The metaphor is trivial but perfect. It is. There is a possibility of damage, of incorrect activity. Again, William Blake, who said that as you start into the spiral, there is the possibility of falling from the golden track into eternal…
…quality of being visual information. To answer your question, Arthur, that seems to make this logos believable in the way that I quoted William Blake when he said, the truth cannot be told. And you do believe it. You do believe it. But I was going to…
…it was this. So that was my scene. But in terms of the relationship to knowledge, I just. I love. It's what William Blake said, you know, he said, attend the minute particulars. And that's what's interesting, I think, is the details of the distinctions…
…at least be metaphorically captured. And so then when you tune into that station and you. You can hang on, you get to be William Blake or Dante or Max Ernst, or a downloader of a major coherent dollop of weird data that then the rest of us, like ants…
…know, Eleusis was this central focus for the mystical intentionality of the greek mind. This ties in with this thing that William Blake said about attend the minute particulars. Remember, we talked about that about. He said this was the basis of poetry and…
…orthogonal into the dimension that I've been calling hyperspace, or the divine imagination of hyperspace. The divine imagination, yeah. From William Blake. Okey dokey. Okay, let's see what's happening. Yes. All right. So you see what lies ahead. We are deeper…
…great insight, your moments of great empowerment. Everything is flowing through your hands at the moment that you are aware of it. William Blake, who, in a way, set this engine going a couple of centuries ago, said, what is the price of experience? Is it…
…No, it is bought with all that. A man, his wife, his home, his children. Now, this is not a pessimistic message, and William Blake was not a pessimistic guy. He was the same guy who told us that if we could but cleanse the doors of perception,…
…infinite. That says to me then that the depth of understanding cannot be known. It cannot be known. Everything is imminent. William Blake makes this point. You know, that you can see infinity in a grain of sand. So understanding, then, is the precondition…
…then you know what to do. If, on the other hand, you fear to be lost in the abyss, you fear what William Blake called falling into eternal death, falling from the spiral of being which connects one reincarnation to another, and falling into the realm…
…what's real. And everything else becomes progressively more hypothetical, more abstract, anticipating Wittgenstein talking about our reach, William Blake said, attend the minute particulars. This was his advice for life. Attend the minute particulars. Well, that's…
…vehicle that can move through space and time. That is the collectivity of all human souls, free at last in what William Blake called the divine imagination. And you don't have to wait for the general dispensation. You can join up anytime by…
…the future, lies in the imagination. You know, the imagination is going to get louder and louder and louder. William Blake saw this. We talk about virtual realities, designer drugs downloading ourselves into circuitry, travel through, through time, disincarnate…
…at prophets, essentially. And of course, somebody that we didn't go into because he rates his own slot, if not course, was William Blake, who saw all of this, who saw what science meant, who wrote about the dark satanic mill, who wrote about the prophecy…
…the universe has ever known because we not only have all which but we have then our own dear selves the poetry of William Blake, the mathematical equations of Albert Einstein, the painting of Rembrandt we have all of this to add into the mix what takes…