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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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From: Richnorth11/1/2007 1:07:26 PM
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Caveat: Patience and a long attention span are needed to go through the 35-page article below. It's a worthwhile read, believe me.

Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything
By Tim O'Shea
10-30-7

Aldous Huxley's inspired 1954 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, indescribable beauty and power. With his neurosensory input thus triggered, Huxley was able to enter that parallel universe described by every mystic and space captain in recorded history. Whether by hallucination or epiphany, Huxley sought to remove all bonds, all controls, all filters, all cultural conditioning from his perceptions and to confront Nature or the World or Reality first-hand - in its unpasteurized, unedited, unretouched infinite rawness.

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