> Bill Haloupek writes
> >
> >"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man
> >as it is, infinite." -William Blake
>
> Shouldn't that be "windows"?
>
> --
> Robin Faichney
> http://www.faichney.org/robin/
It's almost as if Blake was referring to Aldous Huxley's book _Doors of Perception_
which
argues that we are all looking though (maybe potentially going through) "doors" in our
consciousness. Psychedelic drugs just alter the shape and orientation of the doors.
Huxley
thought that the brain was not the originator of thoughts, but only the filter. I like
this idea
very much, but it doesn't seem to jibe with modern mind/brain research.
Anyway, Jim Morrison named his rock band after Huxley's book. But Blake was before
Huxley, right? Maybe it was Huxley that was referring to Blake.
--Bill Haloupek haloupekb@uwstout.edu http://www.mscs.uwstout.edu/~billh/home.html