John Perry Barlow in Tripping
It was obvious to me that all of the separateness I ordinarily perceived was, in fact, an artifact of cultural conditioning, and was indeed less "real" than what I was supposedly hallucinating. At that moment, I knew that I was, for the first time, experiencing things as they are, utterly continuous. There is no discontinuity. There is not one thing and another thing. It is all the same thing, The Holy Thing.
Comments
You should read Watts' The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are.
Posted by: nedlog | December 13, 2005 8:50 PM
But of course, you can also get much the same effect just by listening closely to Ali Akbar Khan ...
Posted by: sassafrass | December 31, 2005 3:07 PM