Sublime

Neuropeptides and hormones are the chemicals responsible for our feelings.

mysterious potential.

‘My major preoccupation is the question, what is reality?’ Philip K. Dick

‘Where I am, infinity is; where infinity is, there I am. I am everywhere and all roads, all lives, lead to me. Everyone will find me in the end. I revealed myself to you (in March 1974) and you saw that I am the infinite void.’

‘This is to do with the DNA because the memory is located in the DNA (phylogenic memory). Very ancient memories, predating this life are triggered off. (…) You remember your real nature. Which is to say, origins (from the stars) Die Zeit ist da!) (The time is here) The Gnostic Gnosis. You are here in this world but you are not of this world.’355

Ernest Hartmann, a psychiatrist at Tufts University School of Medicine presented an innovative approach in his book Boundaries in the Mind (1991). Hartmann’s thinking about boundaries has some remarkable parallels with Jean Shinoda Bolen’s interpretation of the Greek trickster, Hermes.

The Watchers, the djinn and the other egregorial entities we have encountered in this chapter all have one thing in common: they originally existed in the heavens, came down to earth, were defeated or banished by a controlling power, and ended up underground to occasionally enter this world through portals such as caves and sink-holes.

‘The phosphenes — optic neurons — are a primordial sense system by which the “archetypal ideas or eidei” were originally a priori perceived, but like the bicameral mind, it has atrophied. Why, the hallucinogenic mushroom bread and broth sets off phosphene activity! As mescaline, peyote, LSD, etc., do.’360