Aldous Huxley and the visionary persons
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As Mind at Large seeps past the no longer watertight valve, ah kinds of biologicahy useless things start to happen. In some cases there may be extra-sensory perceptions. Other persons discover a world of visionary beauty. To others again is revealed the glory, the infinite value and meaningfulness of naked existence, of the given, unconceptuahzed event. In the final stage of egolessness there is an "obscure knowledge" that All is in ah - that Ah is aetuahy each. This is as near, I take it, as a finite mind can ever come to "perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe."
Most visualizers are transformed by mescahn into visionaries. Some of them - and they are Perhaps more numerous than is generaly supposed - require no transformation; they are visionaries ah the time. The mental species to which Blake belonged is fairly widely distributed even in the urban-industrial societies of the present day.
The untalented visionary may perceive an inner reahty no less tremendous, beautiful and significant than the world beheld by Blake; but he lacks altogether the abihty to express, in hterary or plastic symbols, what he has seen. From the records of rehgion and the surviving menuments of poetry and the plastic arts it is very plain that, at most times and in most places, men have attached more importance to the inscape than to objective existents, have felt that what they saw with their eyes shut possessed a spirituality higher significance than what they saw with their eyes open.
Cosmological predictions that prove Aldous Huxley extended inspired the "collective unconscious" of dr. Carl Jung
The Aldous Huxley book "Heaven and Hell" starts with the preface: "This book is a lapidary continuation of 'The Doors of Perception'. The mescaline experience is, undoubtedly, a revelational one for those whom 'the light of vision' doesn't fire spontaneously. It brings light over the conscious regions unknown until then; and, at the same time, brings light, indirectly, over other minds, more gifted, capable of vision.
Reflecting on his experience, he will get to know and understand better the ways in which those minds perceive and feel and think, the cosmological notions which seem self-evident to them and the art works through which they feel encouraged to express themselves."
At the opposite, dr. Jung is saying that people with dissociative personalities believe that they discovered the secrets of the Universe.
But there is a series of culture peoples with mental disorders that have intuited correctly, future astro-physics discoveries: writer Jonathan Swift, poet Allan Edgar Poe, painter Vincent Van Gogh, poet Mihai Eminescu, abstract painter Jackson Pollock and, especially, abstract painter Hilma af Klint.
There are a lot of quotes in the double book "The Doors of Perception. Heaven and Hell" proving that Aldous Huxley embraced the "collective unconscious" of dr. Jung.
For instance: “A man consists of what I may call an Old World of personal consciousness and, beyond a dividing sea, a series of New Worlds - the not too distant Virginias and Carolinas of the personal sub-subconscious and the vegetative soul; the Far West of the collective unconscious, with its flora of symbols, its tribes of aboriginal archetypes; and, across another, vaster ocean, at the antipodes of everyday consciousness, the world of Visionary Experience.”
But in comparison with Dr Jung, Aldous Huxley sees a more "brave new world" of the collective unconscious.
And what Hilma af Klint did is an undeniable proof that the collective unconscious is more than an "archetypes deposit" as it described cautiously by Dr Jung but, as Huxley believed, reveals "the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness."
https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/happenings/events/josiah-mcelheny-imaginary-modernism-hilma-af-klint-and-blinky-palermo
As Mind at Large seeps past the no longer watertight valve, ah kinds of biologicahy useless things start to happen. In some cases there may be extra-sensory perceptions. Other persons discover a world of visionary beauty. To others again is revealed the glory, the infinite value and meaningfulness of naked existence, of the given, unconceptuahzed event. In the final stage of egolessness there is an "obscure knowledge" that All is in ah - that Ah is aetuahy each. This is as near, I take it, as a finite mind can ever come to "perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe."
Most visualizers are transformed by mescahn into visionaries. Some of them - and they are Perhaps more numerous than is generaly supposed - require no transformation; they are visionaries ah the time. The mental species to which Blake belonged is fairly widely distributed even in the urban-industrial societies of the present day.
The untalented visionary may perceive an inner reahty no less tremendous, beautiful and significant than the world beheld by Blake; but he lacks altogether the abihty to express, in hterary or plastic symbols, what he has seen. From the records of rehgion and the surviving menuments of poetry and the plastic arts it is very plain that, at most times and in most places, men have attached more importance to the inscape than to objective existents, have felt that what they saw with their eyes shut possessed a spirituality higher significance than what they saw with their eyes open.
Cosmological predictions that prove Aldous Huxley extended inspired the "collective unconscious" of dr. Carl Jung
The Aldous Huxley book "Heaven and Hell" starts with the preface: "This book is a lapidary continuation of 'The Doors of Perception'. The mescaline experience is, undoubtedly, a revelational one for those whom 'the light of vision' doesn't fire spontaneously. It brings light over the conscious regions unknown until then; and, at the same time, brings light, indirectly, over other minds, more gifted, capable of vision.
Reflecting on his experience, he will get to know and understand better the ways in which those minds perceive and feel and think, the cosmological notions which seem self-evident to them and the art works through which they feel encouraged to express themselves."
At the opposite, dr. Jung is saying that people with dissociative personalities believe that they discovered the secrets of the Universe.
But there is a series of culture peoples with mental disorders that have intuited correctly, future astro-physics discoveries: writer Jonathan Swift, poet Allan Edgar Poe, painter Vincent Van Gogh, poet Mihai Eminescu, abstract painter Jackson Pollock and, especially, abstract painter Hilma af Klint.
There are a lot of quotes in the double book "The Doors of Perception. Heaven and Hell" proving that Aldous Huxley embraced the "collective unconscious" of dr. Jung.
For instance: “A man consists of what I may call an Old World of personal consciousness and, beyond a dividing sea, a series of New Worlds - the not too distant Virginias and Carolinas of the personal sub-subconscious and the vegetative soul; the Far West of the collective unconscious, with its flora of symbols, its tribes of aboriginal archetypes; and, across another, vaster ocean, at the antipodes of everyday consciousness, the world of Visionary Experience.”
But in comparison with Dr Jung, Aldous Huxley sees a more "brave new world" of the collective unconscious.
And what Hilma af Klint did is an undeniable proof that the collective unconscious is more than an "archetypes deposit" as it described cautiously by Dr Jung but, as Huxley believed, reveals "the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness."
https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/happenings/events/josiah-mcelheny-imaginary-modernism-hilma-af-klint-and-blinky-palermo
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