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“The Doors of Perception:

“Each of Us Is Potentially Mind At Large... When Perception Is Cleansed, All Kinds of Nonordinary Things Happen”

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of the book, *Experience Is Divinity: Matter As Metaphor*

by Michael Adzema

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Chapter 4 is the beginning of “SECTION TWO: TRANSCENDING WORLDS”

& it explains: “Why Everything Appears Infinite when the Doors of Perception Are Cleansed: “Mind at Large” & The Awakening”

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[*Quotes/highlights:*] “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is...infinite.”—William Blake []

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[*Chapter 4 text begins:*] “*Why We Seek to Know*

“*Ordinary Reality is Useful*

“In view of all this, one might ask, if one cannot have any truly accurate conception or even “sense” of what is really real, why then bother to know anything?”

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“Well, we bother to know because it is a helpful part of our species-specific worldview to do so.”

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“We have evolved, as nearly as we can determine, through a process of natural selection based on survival. We are, consequently, the end-product of a biological drive to exist, to live—in all that may biologically, or otherwise, connote.”

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“Hence, that which we “know,” in our most refined science & in our daily lives, is that which is, or has been, in some way useful to the *biological* existence of our species.”

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“*Ordinary Science is Useful*

“This so-called “real-world” information is important because, then, it relates *to* our very biological aliveness. It has worth & it has value in that.”

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“That which comprises our species-world (as opposed to the “World-In-Itself”), indeed, is extremely relevant to everything that we think of as living & existing...for our species.”

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“The point I make, however, is that our senses & our sciences—which are extensions of our senses—are not ultimately in any one-to-one relationship to That Which Is...”

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“…that our refined as well as cruder perceptions of reality are bioculturally relative—even more biologically relative than they are culturally relative in Marshall Sahlins‘s allegedly extreme theory.”

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“*Tho We Know Not*

*Neither Ordinary Reality or Science Is Necessarily Real*

“Let me put it this way. Our combined efforts in psychology, physics, biology, & anthropology (examples of which I have been pointing out) have led us to an impasse.”

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“We have been led to conclude that our view of reality is symbolic. We have learned, above all, not what to know, but that we know not...that is to say, that we are incapable of truly knowing.”

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“In anthropology we see this in Sahlins’s (1976) thinking on culture. But D’Andrade makes the important point, as mentioned earlier, that in Sahlins’s theory the total cultural heritage is a symbolic structure.”

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“Thus, Sahlins’s theory is “epistemologically sealed.” My point is that since our total biological heritage is also a “symbolic structure”—in the sense at least that it is a species-relative created reality providing analogous representations,..”

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“…survival-oriented metaphors only of That Which Is—we are “epistemologically sealed” as regards That Which Is & specifically in terms of understanding other known or unknown species.”

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“Our reality is symbolic & “sealed”—that is to say, cut off from all else—prior to the cultural symbolism that creates further obfuscation between people in different cultures.”

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“*Paradigm Relativity*

“We see that there are therefore levels of applicability of “knowledge.” We might think of these as paradigms.”

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“But as surely as there are cultural paradigms, there are biological paradigms. I am saying that every biological configuration of spirit represents a separate paradigm for interpreting reality.”

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“*The Awakening...A New Paradigm Perspective*

“It might be helpful to mention Huxley’s (1956) way of viewing this matter. In his classic work, *The Doors of Perception*,..”

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“…[Huxley] quotes Dr. C.D. Broad on the importance of considering a view of memory & sense perception, originally proposed by Bergson, in which “the function of the brain & nervous system & sense organs is in the main *eliminative*” (p. 22).”

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“*What Is Outside All Paradigms...Really Real*

“By way of explanation, Huxley (1956), still quoting Broad, writes,”

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“”Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him & of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.””

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“”The function of the brain & nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed & confused by this mass of largely useless & irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment,..””

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““…& leaving only that very small & special selection which is likely to be practically useful.” (pp. 22-23)”

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“*Mind at Large Is “Really Real”*

“Huxley (1956) adds

“”According to such a theory, each one of us is potentially Mind at Large. But in so far as we are animals, our business is at all costs to survive.””

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“”To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain & nervous system.””

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“”What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet.” (p. 23)”

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“*When the Doors of Perception Are Cleansed, The Nonordinary Happens*

“Furthermore, Huxley (1956) points out,..”

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“…when this is reversed by various methods, & the brain is itself inhibited from its task of reducing awareness so that “Mind at Large seeps past the no longer watertight valve, all kinds of biologically useless things start to happen” (p. 26).”

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This has been a threaded version of the entire Chapter 4, titled,

“The Doors of Perception:

“Each of Us Is Potentially Mind At Large...

“When Perception Is Cleansed, All Kinds of Nonordinary Things Happen”

READ BOOK… wp.me/p2cSxz-aR #psychology #psychedelic

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of *Experience Is Divinity: Matter As Metaphor*

by Michael Adzema

which is

a pantheistic perspective on Reality & Nature that asserts logically & in line w quantum physics that the basic unit of Existence is Experience.

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Experience, shared, is the nature of Existence & the grand total of minds in the Universe is 1. As quantum physicist, Erwin Schrödinger phased it, “The total number of minds in the universe is one.”

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Schrödinger phased it, “The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings.”

That one Mind, or singularity, in all of Existence can only be what we refer to as "God" or "Divinity."

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& since we are all aspects of that one Mind or Divinity & our participation in that Divinity is the fractal of experience we call our life, then our very experience is our Divinity and the combined total of all Experience, all of that One Mind,..

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…[our very experience is our Divinity & the combined total of all Experience, all of that One Mind,] is God, or Divinity. Thus, Experience Is Divinity.

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and Experience, indeed…as our experiences in the experiential modalities & spirituality in general show…our very experience is indeed our Divine guiding self.

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That our very experience is Divinity, is Experience, has profound implications for spiritual growth, psychotherapy, philosophy, quantum, & metaphysics.

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The book, *Experience Is Divinity*, shows how in our coming into being as individuals of the species human, we repressed our innate connection with Divinity.

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This repression of our innate connection with Divinity was done as part of the Game of humanness, wherein God (gods, Divinity) becomes less than Itself to set off the glorious ad-venture of Existence. Of Experience.

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This book rests on the latest findings of research into nonordinary states. It is informed by the research of Stanislav Grof, of the author & his wife’s own nonordinary experiences, of quantum physics, & of primal & other experiential modalities.

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Ch 4 is titled,

“The Doors of Perception:

“Each of Us Is Potentially Mind At Large...

“When Perception Is Cleansed, All Kinds of Nonordinary Things Happen”

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The complete book is available online at the links

you can read the book, which is posted on the blog, or you can follow the directions there & download a free copy of *Experience Is Divinity: Matter As Metaphor*.

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This is the completed document for *Experience Is Divinity: Matter As Metaphor*

It is a pdf file & looks exactly as the book looks.

To read and/or download a copy, click link:

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If you like & agree with these ideas & want more attention & thought brought to them, feel free to download the book & pass it around, as you wish; use it to spread these ideas.

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“It is time now for humans to regain the primal legacy of belongingness in Divinity & Nature, which we lost when we put ourselves up as the crown of creation & at the peak of some evolutionary pyramid, with “dominion” over all the rest.”

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& please send any comments/reviews of the book to me at

[e-mail]

The idea being I might be able to use your comments in describing it in my own sharing on social media.

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Finally, if what you prefer are paperback or ebook/Kindle versions, you may acquire them at the links below.

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Up next,

in *Experience Is Divinity:

"Matter As Metaphor*

by Michael Adzema

is Ch 5, titled,

“How We Might Come to Know:

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Ch 5 is subtitled,

“In Tossing Away Our Species Blinders, We Relearn That Consciousness Is Infinite, Yes...

"but Fantastic as Well”

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