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Re: The Doors of Perception

Nov 16, 2005, 22:20

>Does a mystical or spiritual experience happen in the external world when our perception of it is enhanced or is it an illusion produced by chemicals in the brain?<

Internal? External? You are falling into the same trap again mon ami ;-)

"If the red slayer thinks he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep and pass, and turn again."*

There is a moon in the sky tonight that takes my breath away; bright, round, sailing through the recently leaf-stripped branches of the trees. Why ask why when before us there is, just is...

Tomorrow again...

"...come thoughts now knocking my heart, of the high waves,
clashing salt-crests, I am to cross again.
Mind-lust maddens, moves as I breathe
soul to set out, seek out the way
to a far-folk land flood-beyond."**

You know where that comes from Peter. Time now for me to 'cross again' for a few days, soul to seek out, seek out the way :-)

* From Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

** The Earliest English Poems translated by Michael Alexander. ISBN 0-14-0445942.

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