The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation—the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence. “Is it agreeable?” somebody asked. (During this part of the experiment, all conversations were recorded on a dictating machine, and it has been possible for me to refresh my memory of what was said.) “Neither agreeable nor disagreeable,
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By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of is
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The other world to which mescalin admitted me was not the world of visions; it existed out there, in what I could see with my eyes open. The great change was in the realm of objective fact. What had happened to my subjective universe was relatively unimportant.
Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves.
Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
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Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
pregnant piece of nonsense.