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LSD appears to disable such conventionalized, shorthand modes of perception and, by doing so, restores a childlike immediacy, and sense of wonder, to our experience of reality,
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
The peasants had sucked me as dry as a failed harvest, I would have perished, I went among men and did not perish.”
Alfred Döblin • Berlin Alexanderplatz
It was early in the afternoon of May 10, 1996. I hadn’t slept in fifty-seven hours. The only food I’d been able to force down over the preceding three days was a bowl of ramen soup and a handful of peanut M&Ms. Weeks of violent coughing had left me with two separated ribs that made ordinary breathing an excruciating trial.
Jon Krakauer • Into Thin Air
He would subsequently reflect on this encounter: “The brochure advised me that it was a haystack. I had no idea what that was. This non-recognition was excruciatingly distressing for me. The painter, in my opinion, had no right to depict incoherently. I had a distinct impression that the painting’s subject was absent. And I was surprised and perpl
... See moreArt In Context • Wassily Kandinsky - A Portrait of Kandinsky the Artist
we are all living through something like a denial-of-service attack on our minds.