They say our understanding of things is nothing but a layer after layer accumulation of dirt. They say for us to understand the true nature of things we ought to cleanse ourselves off the layer after layer formation that has become our very identity.
To quote Aldous Huxley on the occasion of his birthday, just yesterday, from his famous 1954 essay “The Doors of Perception” in which he claims the Mescaline’s (comparable to LSD) ability to temporarily cleanse one off their multilayered perceptions and ideas,
“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended directly and unconditionally by Mind at Large – this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual.”
But how are we so sure that Mescaline is a worm hole to the THE experience (THE to be read as ‘absolute’) but not a worm hole to another way of experiencing the same world that we live in? If our existence itself is, limited by, built upon, an uni-dimensional pedestal that is time-space, how does the, supposed, claim that mescaline as a sort of short cut to THE (THE, again, as I like you to read) stand tall?
Is it not possible for our whole race to be not superior than a mere specks of dirt that we come across in our day to day existence? Does our consciousness, inventions etc. etc. as a whole or one by one make us any superior? After all, where does any definitive meaning of Superiority stand when taken into consideration the very relative nature of things in our one-dimensional world of human perceptions, let alone the multi-, if not infinite dimensional possible perceptions in our very own, the pale blue dot, that is, Earth.
To quote Huxley one last time, “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
And thrusting to the line my own perception will make it as under,
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad, if at all there’s one.”
THINGS ..... 