The Psychedelic Experience by Leary-Alpert-Metzner

Author:Leary-Alpert-Metzner
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

significance or quality upon command. They are admired, adored, analyzed, examined, changed, made beautiful

or ugly, large or small, important or trivial, useful, dangerous, magical or incomprehensible. They may be

reacted to with wonder, amazement, humor, veneration, love, disgust, fascination, horror, delight, fear, ecstasy.

Like a computer with unlimited access to any programs, the mind roams freely. Personal and racial memories

bubble up to the surface of consciousness, inter-play with fantasies, wishes, dreams and external objects. A

present event becomes charged with profound emotional significance, a cosmic phenomenon becomes identical

with some personal quirk. Metaphysical problems are juggled and bounced around. Pure "primary process,"

spontaneous outopouring of association, opposites merging, images fusing, condensing, shifting, collapsing,

expanding, merging, connecting.

This kaleidoscopic vision of game-reality may be frightening and confusing to an ill-prepared subject. Instead

of exquisite clarity of many-levelled perception, he will experience a confused chaos of uncontrollable,

meaningless forms. Instead of delight at the playful acrobatics of the free intellect, there will be anxious clinging

to an elusive order. Morbid and scatological hallucinations may occur, evoking disgust and shame.

As before, this negative vision occurs only if the person attempts to control or rationalize the magic panorama.

Relax and accept whatever comes. Remember that all visions are created by your mind, the happy and the

unhappy, the beautiful and the ugly, the delightful and the horrifying. Your consciousness is creator, performer

and spectator of the "retinal circus."

If the guide senses that the voyager is in or seems to be in the "retinal circus" vision, he may read to him the

appropriate instructions INSTRUCTIONS FOR VISION 6: "THE RETINAL CIRCUS".

Vision 7: "The Magic Theatre"

If the voyager was unable to maintain the passive serenity necessary for the contemplation of the previous

visions (the peaceful deities), he moves now into a more dramatic and active phase. The play of forms and

things becomes the play of heroic figures, superhuman spirits and demigods. [In the Tibetan Handbook, this is

described as the vision of the five "Knowledge- Holding Deities," arranged in a mandala form, each embraced

by Dakinis, in an ecstatic dance. The Knowledge-holding Deities symbolize "the highest level of individual or

humanly conceivable knowledge, as attained in the consciousness of great Yogis, inspired thinkers or similar

heroes of the spirit. They represent the last step before the "breaking-through" towards the universal

consciousness - or the first on the return from there to the plane of human knowledge." (Govinda, op. cit., p.

202.) The Dakinis are female embodiments of knowledge, representing the inspirational impluses of

consciousness leading to break-through. The other four Knowledge-Holders, besides the central Lord of Dance,

are: the Knowledge-holder abiding in the earth, the Knowledge-holder who has power over the duration of life,

the Knowledge-holder of the Great Symbol, and the Knowledge-holder of Spontaneous Realization.] You may

see radiating figures in human forms. The "Lotus Lord of Dance": the supreme image of a demi-god who

perceives the effects of all actions. The prince of movement, dancing in an ecstatic embrace with his female

counterpart. Heroes, heroines, celestial warriors, male and female demi-gods, angels, fairies - the exact form of

these figures will depend on the person's background and tradition. Archetypal figures in the

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