See more ideas about the doors of perception, perception, william blake. I remember telling my tutor that I found his poems “mind-boggling”. Loved the “aphs”, dont know if the writer came up with it, or its prior, but its genius! For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern. Reading the papers today I’d have to agree with you! He would have heard that “Our God is a consuming fire” (Hebrews 12:29), so that when—as he later explained—at age four he saw God peering in his second-floor window, he did the only natural thing: He screamed in terror. Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. “I must Create a System. Incapable of keeping such an apparition to himself, he rushed home and told his parents. Otherwise, below is solely for The Doors of Perception. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of … For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”. He assembled a number of these aphoristic observations and published them as the ‘Proverbs of Hell’ which appear at the start of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. For example, Blake’s comment that “The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction” doesn’t make much sense on first reading. “I hear his advice & even now write from his dictate.” That phrase “in the spirit” is important. Blake’s thinking predicts all sorts of things, from the structure of matter (his views on the inter-involved, infinite nature of energy anticipate Niels Bohr and David Bohm) to the structure of the mind, where his theories prefigure Freud, Jung, and Ferenczi. In Blake’s words, we must ‘cleanse the doors of perception’; for when the doors of perception are cleansed, ‘everything appears to man as it is—infinite.’ Here’s one of my favorite excerpts, about the ultimate solitude of each human being and the limits of communication. “With his spirit I converse daily and hourly in the spirit & see him in my remembrance,” Blake wrote. "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. With great thoroughness Robert performed all the steps, revealed the ink to use, the method. The psychedelic proselytiser Timothy Leary was given the book by a colleague soon after returning from Mexico where he had first taken psilocybin mushrooms in the summer of 1960. ‘William Blake’ collage by Chekoullage, by kind permission of the artist. His poems are included in countless anthologies. The Doors acquired a reputation for pushing the boundaries of rock composition, both musically and lyrically, in performances on … ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. For him it shimmered with the possibilities of a new Jerusalem. Today Blake’s prints, sketches and paintings of those visions are in the world’s finest museums. But what was different about Blake, I think, was his unusual sanity, his remarkably integrated view of the world. He always claimed he painted and drew what he did because that’s exactly what he saw. And a heaven in a wild flower, -William Blake. No doubt about it, Blake’s brilliantly colored paintings and profound poems reveal the sensibility of an artist engrossed in the world beyond: angels, demons, prophets, Jesus, God. In the Doors …Aldous Huxley’s book on mescaline, The Doors of Perception, which in turn referred to a line in a poem by William Blake. Why keep such glories a secret? Blake’s idea of opening “The Doors of Perception” refers to humanity using their senses to go beyond materiality and engage deeper into our surroundings. Lewis makes reference to Blake, among others, in his work entitled The Great Divorce. “If the doors of perception were cleansed,” he once wrote, “everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” This sentence seeped into my consciousness, like wine through water (to use Emily Brontë’s fine image), slowly transforming how I see reality, and how I write. As he grew older and his poetry and art grew more idiosyncratic—and more superb—Blake faced criticism and became increasingly remote from the world. I’m still ‘ere, & it [this fatuous quip] ‘s still nonsense, whether it makes sense to you or not… I’m watching you, lad! It illuminates the life and career of a challenging artist THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION. 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