ruminations on nature and light
"Outside is pure energy and colorless substance," he said. "All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings."
this quote is from albert hofmann, who discovered LSD in 1938 or thereabouts. he's 100 right now.
For him, LSD was a drug that helped him realize the incredible power of being one with nautre. It's a very interesting idea I think, that a drug could awaken people to the power of nature. I wonder how much of his perception is based on an impressed ideology from childhood experiences (he speaks of hikes as a child being formative for example). I suspect his concerns for children of cities is based on the lack of rooting in those early experiences. I suppose this is why we take children to parks, because they need to experience on some level, lack of walls, ground that doesn't hurt, green (at least as we perceive it - which may better be described as being surrounded by something that takes that energy from the sun and puts it to such amazing use), room to run, and time to disregard if we so chose.
It does make one wonder what the damage from sterility may cause. laboratory white boxes stacked on filthy streets does not imbue a sense of attachedness to the earth as a remarkable place at all now does it?
this quote is from albert hofmann, who discovered LSD in 1938 or thereabouts. he's 100 right now.
For him, LSD was a drug that helped him realize the incredible power of being one with nautre. It's a very interesting idea I think, that a drug could awaken people to the power of nature. I wonder how much of his perception is based on an impressed ideology from childhood experiences (he speaks of hikes as a child being formative for example). I suspect his concerns for children of cities is based on the lack of rooting in those early experiences. I suppose this is why we take children to parks, because they need to experience on some level, lack of walls, ground that doesn't hurt, green (at least as we perceive it - which may better be described as being surrounded by something that takes that energy from the sun and puts it to such amazing use), room to run, and time to disregard if we so chose.
It does make one wonder what the damage from sterility may cause. laboratory white boxes stacked on filthy streets does not imbue a sense of attachedness to the earth as a remarkable place at all now does it?
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