Kantsii lukea Huxleyn
Doors of Perception tosta deelihappening vs. sen kirjottaminen paperille jutusta. Vaikka essee on kirjoitettu yli 50 vuotta sitten on se silti yksi selvimmistä, älykkäimmistä, päräyttävimmistä, innostavimmista ja psykedeelisimmista teksteistä kirjoitettu aiheesta. Yleensä samoissa kansissa tuleva essee
Heaven and Hell, joka pohtii enemmän kaikkea teatteria, taidetta, tekniikkaa ym. psykedeelis-mystisestä näkökulmasta on myös lukeamisen arvoinen, vaikka siinä itse psykedeelistä kokemusta nyt ei niin kuvaillakaan.
Sit täs on pari vertausta, joista ehkä on apua:
The Secret Chief Revealed
by Myron J. Stolaroff
MAPS, 2005
Voin katsoa sivunumerot kunhan pääseen selaamaan kirjastoani.
PREPARATION
I'll bring my analogies in here at this point. When I'm talking about a trip to a person who hasn't tripped and they want to know, "What's it like?" It's hard to describe what it's like but I have a couple of analogies that I use.
One is, imagine that you're on a stage, a very large stage, around stage, circular. You're standing in the center of the stage. Around this stage is a huge curtain, very, very high and it's closed and where the curtain comes together there's about say three feet of space, of an opening. You're standing in the middle of that stage and you're looking out through that opening. Everything you see is the totality of your experience of yourself.
What happens on a trip is by some mysterious means the curtain very gradually is pulled back. Very gradually. It's pulled back until it's pulled all the way around the back and you're given the opportunity to see everything that's been there all the time but you couldn't see it before because there was a curtain. All the different levels of experience that it's possible to have, you have. All the different truths, all the different things, you have. You experience it. Then, as you start to come down, very gradually the curtain gets pulled back around until you're all the way down.
When you're all the way down, the difference is that before, you had about three feet of space that was open to look through. You now have about fifteen feet of space. You have really expanded your awareness, which is what they call these materials, awareness-expanders.
Myron: The curtain might have even gotten a little transparent.
Jacob: Yeah, (laughs), that was what I was going to follow with. In addition to that you have a lot of memory of what you did experience before. So in a sense that's true, the curtain has become almost transparent. You don't remember everything, you don't need to remember everything. You don't need to. You remember everything you need to remember.
There's another analogy that I use, too. It's similar to that. That is, imagine a castle, a huge castle, very large. Many rooms, many turrets, many levels of it. There's only one way to get into this castle, and that's the front door. The front door is solid steel. Impregnable. You can knock on that door all you want. You can do everything you can to tear it down. You can't get it down. Every now and then you might somehow or other move it a little bit to get a glimpse of what's behind it, but that's all. There's no way, and you've tried every way possible to get into that castle. Which is yourself.
What happens on a trip is by some mysterious magic means this door is dissolved, and you have the opportunity to go in and explore that castle. Any place you want. You go in and you look around, and you find many, many wonderful places, strange places maybe, scary places and all that. You can go to the top and you can go to the bottom and you get a sense of what the totality of yourself really is like. As you come down, what happens is that the door somehow or other gets back up there. But that's all right, because you have a memory of what possibilities are there and what you've experienced. The biggest experience that it brings to you is that it connects you with feelings that you've never been connected with before. They are now open to you. Not on the level or the intensity that you had in the experience but certainly much more than they ever were before. That gives them an idea. "My God!" they say. "How soon can I have one?" (Laughter.)
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Enpähän minäkään toki tuon ajan Learyn pään sisälle pääse, mutta muista lähteistä kyllä saa aika erilaisen kuvan. Sinänsä kirja on kyllä viihdyttävää luettavaa, mutta en voi olla häiriintymättä tunteesta, että ovatkohan muutkaan faktat aivan kohdillaan, varsinkin kun lähdeviitteet ovat todella ylimalkaisia.
