doors of perception
nounEtymology
From a quote from William Blake's book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793): If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.
Definitions
The ability to perceive more than the normal input of our senses
The ability to perceive more than the normal input of our senses; the means of achieving altered states of consciousness.
- Those who have gotten their doors of perception open wide enough often enough know that this statement of Blake's is not mere poetic exaggeration.
- We go about our lives perceiving one reality, while an infinite number of alternate realities exist just outside our doors of perception.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for doors of perception. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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