Visionary Experience (1960)
Aldous Huxley
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The speaker argues that visionary experience underlies the human fascination with precious stones, religious imagery, art, and spectacle. He connects mystical states to psychological, physiological, and chemical methods of induction, citing traditions, laboratory findings, and examples from Plato to modern psychedelics.
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