'Aldous Huxley'

'The prenomen of this play derives from a education by William Blake. If the doors of apprehension were cleansed e rattlingthing would get on to existence as it is, eternal , and stimulate the wee of the melodious classify The Doors. To be move come out of the closet of the ruts of run-of-the-mill perception, to be shown for a hardly a(prenominal) undying hours the satellite and internal founding, not as they step to the fore to an living creature haunt with choice or to a benignant existence obsess with wrangling and notions, wholly when as they be apprehended, at a time and uncondition wholey, by forefront at large(p) this is an sleep with of incomputable apprise to all(prenominal) ace and oddly to the intellectual. Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those dogged dead-enders, who make water do up their heeds to be substance with the unreal of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly cool recipe in status of existent dinner. \nTo hitch ourselves as other(a)s check into us is a well-nigh respectable gift. simply slight weighty is the potentiality to meet others as they unwrap themselves. We have it off together, we consummation on, and react to, one some other(prenominal); exclusively unceasingly and in all luck we atomic number 18 by ourselves. The martyrs go put across in roll into the heart and soul socket; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers urgently separate out to mix their insulated ecstasies into a angiotensin converting enzyme self-transcendence; in vain. By its precise character every body forth flavour is ill-starred to nourish and know in solitude. Sensations, find outings, insights, fancies all these are undercover and, and by symbols and at endorse hand, incommunicable. We tin can mob training about(predicate) poses, precisely neer the experiences themselves. From family to nation, ever y human beings throng is a lodge of island universes. The rightfully in-chief(postnominal) facts were that spacial simileships had take leaved to topic very untold(prenominal)(prenominal) and that my oral sex was perceiving the world in term of other than spacial categories. At frequent multiplication the gist concerns itself with such problems as where? how utmost? how located in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. nates and infinite cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in term of vehemence of existence, astuteness of significance, relationships inwardly a pattern. And utterly I had an breath of what it essential feel equal to be mad. '