Book: The doors of perception



In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people is almost impossible to pay attention to anything but words and notions. Always have money on his doctoral thesis for obtaining a scientific hoax studies that for scientists is incredibly important problem: who influenced whom to cast what and when? Even in our age of technology the verbal Humanities are held in high esteem. Non-verbal Humanities, the arts direct awareness of these facts of our experience are almost completely ignored. Catalog, bibliography, a definitive edition of the ipsissima verba of third-rhymer, a huge pointer to eliminate all pointers - any genuinely Alexandrian project is sure to get the approval and financial support. But when it comes to the question, as you and I, our children and grandchildren become more receptive to learn more intensely aware of internal and external reality, to be more open towards the spirit is less prone to physical illness due to psychological abuse, more able to control their own autonomic nervous system - when it comes to any form of non-verbal education more deeply (and practically useful) Swedish gymnastics, no really respectable person no one really respected University or Church will not have this puzzled. Verbality leery of non-verbalist; rationalists fear the given, non-rational fact; the point of view of intellectuals: "what we perceive by the eye (or any other way) alien to us as such and should not impress us deeply." In addition, the issue of education in the field of nonverbal Humanities does not fall into any of the accepted cells. It is not a religion, not neurology, not gymnastics, not ethics or civics, not even experimental psychology. Therefore, from the point of view of academic and theological question does not exist and it can be easily ignored completely or with a patronising smile leave to those whom the Pharisees of verbal Orthodoxy call cranks, quacks, charlatans or unqualified Amateurs.
№ 388369   Added MegaMozg 08-03-2020 / 23:10
We should learn to ask with words; but at the same time, we must preserve and, if necessary, to develop your ability to see the world directly, not through this translucent medium of concepts, which distorts every given fact, turning it into all too familiar likeness of some generic label or explanatory abstraction.
№ 388368   Added MegaMozg 08-03-2020 / 23:08
Innumerable of those individuals who wish semitransparency and would like to find her in the Church. But alas, "the hungry flock looks up and unfed". They take part in rites, they listen to sermons, they repeat prayers; but their thirst remains unquenched. Frustrated, they turn to the bottle. At least for a while it somehow works. The Church can still be visited; but it is nothing more than the Musical Bank of Butler's "Egdon". God can still admit; but He is God only on the verbal level, only in strictly pikviksky sense. A valid object of worship is the bottle and the sole religious experience is that state unchecked and belligerent euphoria which follows the consumption of the third cocktail.
№ 388367   Added MegaMozg 08-03-2020 / 23:06
The reason experience is less important than the experience itself.
№ 388366   Added MegaMozg 08-03-2020 / 23:04
The folds of my gray flannel trousers were charged with "is-ness" even more than a chair, though perhaps less than the absolutely supernatural flowers. What are the folds of these were required this privileged status, I can not say. Perhaps because of the folded shape of the drapery are so strange and dramatic that they capture the look and in this way draw attention to the wonderful fact of existence? Who knows?
№ 388365   Added MegaMozg 08-03-2020 / 23:02
To see ourselves as others see us - the most beneficial gift. Hardly less important is the ability to see others as they see themselves. But what if these others belong to a different species and inhabit a radically alien universe?
№ 172472   Added MegaMozg 12-01-2017 / 16:04
We live together, we act and react on one another; but always and in all circumstances, we - by themselves. In the arena of the martyrs go hand in hand; crucify them one by one. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single semitransparency; in vain. By its very nature, every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, whims - they are all personal and not transferable, except through symbols and at second hand. We may collect information about the experience, but never the experience itself. From family to nation, every group of people is a society of island universes.
№ 172471   Added MegaMozg 12-01-2017 / 16:04
Here's the problem - to prevent disorder. Don't be upset because of the memories of past sins, because of imaginary pleasures, because of the bitter aftertaste of old mistakes and humiliation, because of all the fears, hatred and desires, which usually darken the light
№ 21009   Added MegaMozg 02-01-2017 / 02:45
When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when "the sea flows in our veins... and the stars are our diamonds," when all things are perceived as infinite and Holy, what motive could we have for greed and self-assertion, for the pursuit of power or bored with the forms of pleasure?
№ 21005   Added MegaMozg 02-01-2017 / 02:45
But both he and she belonged to the world, which at the moment, mescaline had delivered me - the world of many "I's" of time, of moral judgments and utilitarian calculations, the world (and this side of human life, among other things, I would like to forget) of self-assertion, arrogance, and overrated words italobalkaniona revered opinions.
№ 20997   Added MegaMozg 02-01-2017 / 02:45