Aldous Huxley’s inspired 1954 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, indescribable beauty and power. With his neurosensory input thus triggered, Huxley was able to enter that parallel universe glimpsed by every mystic and space captain in recorded history. Whether by hallucination or epiphany, Huxley sought to remove all bonds, all controls, all filters, all cultural conditioning from his perceptions and to confront Nature or the World or Reality first-hand – in its unpasteurized, unedited, unretouched infinite rawness.
Those bonds are much harder to break today, half a century later. We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our very awareness of the whole design seems like it is being subtly and inexorably erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely regulated.
It is an exhausting and endless task to keep explaining to people how most issues of conventional wisdom are scientifically implanted in the public […]
Stephan, it’s no stretch for me to read this article and intertwine it with an article posted today at Truthdig, under the pen of Paul Street. You have repeated on many days, that the Nov. midterms are the most important elections in US history.
Perhaps you are missing a new trend in that the latest poll suggests 61% up from 57, want a genuine worker 3rd. party in your country, aside from the DEM/GOP duopoly.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/so-hows-that-major-party-election-madness-working-for-us/
This was like reading my own thoughts. It was wonderful to read someone else stating the things I have been telling people about the PR industry and Bernays for decades now. Of course it was not new to me, but I hope it will wake up others who have not had the ability to assimilate this information before now. What a wonderful work of art this was to read, and so well put together by Mr. O’Shey.