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theadvancedapes  ·  3672 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My First Ayahuasca Experience

    Did you ever get around to reading The Doors of Perception?

Yes I did! What a great book. One of my favourite quotes reflects an interesting phenomenon of space-time dimensionality becoming superseded by informational properties:

    I saw books, but was not at all concerned with their positions in space. What I noticed, what impressed itself upon my mind was the fact that all of them were glowing with living light and that in some the glory was more manifest than in others. In this context position and the three dimensions were beside the point. Not, of course, that the category of space had been abolished. When I got up and walked about, I could do so quite normally, without misjudging the whereabouts of objects. Space was still there; but it had lost its predominance. The mind was primarily concerned, not with measures and locations, but with being and meaning.