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It was a vast old religion, greater than anything we know: more starkly and nakedly religious. There is no God, no conception of a god. All is god. But it is not the pantheism we are accustomed to, which expresses itself as “God is everywhere, God is in everything.” In the oldest religion, everything was alive, not super naturally but naturally alive. There were only deeper and deeper streams of l ife, vibrations of life more and more vast. So rocks were alive, but a mountain had a deeper, vaster life than a rock, and it was much harder for a man to bring his spirit, or his energy, into contact with the life of the mountain, and so draw strength from the mountain, as from a great standing well of life, than it was to come into contact with the rock. And he had to put forth a great religious effort. For the whole life effort of man was to get his life into contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain-life, cloud-life, thunder-life, air-life, earth-life, sun-life. To come int

A consciousness catalyst?

A consciousness catalyst? By  Steven Heivly  in  The Far Off Land An attempt at a philosophical evaluation of the hallucinogenic drug experience. By Dr. Eugene Seaich  ·  Edit doc  ·  Delete Writing, from the top of my head. From an idea .... Is LSD a consciousness catalyst? I think so. How? I do not know... but somehow. I always loved depictions of other worlds in movies, seemingly the heavenly ones (that I think are heavenly) actually turn out to be the dangerous and more hellish worlds, whereas the individual's consciousness is thrust more into a heavenly fight, with abundant meaning, purpose and life. I think of certain movies when I think of this, and in particular, the recent movie Sucker Punch. The girl (holding onto her hope and life) is thrust into an unimaginable situation where (holding onto her hope and life) is inevitably thrust into higher worlds, of which she becomes a powerful fighter and learns very deep knowledge very quickly. I guess LSD could b

The Far-Off Land

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http://rosedogbooks-store.stores.yahoo.net/falaatatphev.html#.T7wD9uqBceQ.facebook The Far-Off Land An attempt at a philosophical evaluation of the hallucinogenic drug-experience. 1959 Ich weiss nicht, was soil es bedeuten, Dass ich so traurig bin; Ein Maerchen aus alten Zeiten, Das koramt nir nicht aus dem Sinn.... (I know not the meaning of this melancholy, A legend from long ago Keeps running through my mind....) (German Folksong) ...need I dread from thee harsh judgments,  if the song be loth to quit Those recollected hours that have the charm of visionary things, those lovely forms and sweet sensations that throw back our life, and almost make remotest infancy A visible scene, on which the sun is shinin (Wordsworth, The Prelude) Its runes are pale and fadeAnd after years of suffering Which destroyed so much in us, There will always sound the legend Of a world which once we knew. Its runes are pale and faded, Its