The Human Situation 15: Natural History of Visions
Aldous Huxley
Jonathan
May 12, 202614 December 1959UC Santa Barbara, CA
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Aldous Huxley argues that precious stones are valued because they resemble the luminous, ordered imagery of visionary experience. He surveys memory, imagination, dreams, mysticism, drugs, isolation, and art to show how the human mind accesses an inner “other world” reflected in gems, stained glass, fireworks, and pageantry.
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