On 25/04/2011 01:38, RussellMc wrote:
>> This is all a bit depressing.
> Surprisingly, perhaps,  Adam Smith comes to the rescue:
>
>      "Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren,
>       and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.=
"

Well that brings us firmly down to earth again :-)
A good place to be.

>> For some reason, this comes to mind:
>> If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear
>> to man as it is, infinite.
>> For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow
>> chinks of his cavern.
> You're not suggesting that Olin is explained by Mescalin, are you ???*

I thought I'd leave a little to the imagination.. :-)
The quote seemed relevant as it alone provokes many thoughts and  images=20
for me, even without the connections to Huxley et al, though I had=20
these, and his experience firmly in mind.


> Agh. Too much. work calls.
> William Blake. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marriage_of_Heaven_and_Hell
> Some good stuff in that small work, despite Blake's rather unusual perspe=
ctives.
> Ctrl-A (select all) to make readable:
> http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/hell/blake.html
> Better elsewhere no doubt.
>
> "Tyger tyger, ...". Amazing.
> How did he manage it all.

Not sure, but I'm extremely glad that he did manage it..

> FWIW, the title is a parody of sorts on Swedenborg's work
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_and_Hell_(Swedenborg)
>
> Often better known through its use as a title for Huxley's Mescalin
> experiment account.
>      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception
> Some good comment and references on that page.
>
>
>
>   R
>
> *
>>>>>>>>>>>   ... jokes require implied context ...
> Context:
>
> Attempt at weak joke based on Huxley's use of Blake's words for the
> title of his Mescalin account .


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