AtDTDA 33 924 Doll-tits/Puppet-Pecker-Peyote

[Mark Kohut]

So, Robin and Laura (love the McTaggart joke and joke):
   
  Might TRP have put that trip into this section, with the McTaggart joke
  (and so much more) to link with the "timelessness" of certain earth-based
  but 'spiritual' experiences.

robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
  Me: I guess it's only fair to note that sometimes the climax 
of a LSD or peyote experience occurs several weeks before 
taking the drug.

Laura:
Sounds like John McTaggert Ellis McTaggert all over again. 
And Pynchon too.

Yes, very much Pynchonian. Very much the point. That time-shifting 
aspect of the Trip is the most important/least understood aspect. One 
has the subjective impression at times that the experience will never 
end. This usually happens on level 12 bummers, the ones that require 
the personal intervention of Wavy Gravy if one ever hopes to recover.
Dare I say that one might be wandering through the akashic records?

Akashic Records

A theosophical term referring to an universal filing system which 
records every occurring thought, word, and action. The records 
are impressed on a subtle substance called akasha (or Soniferous 
Ether). In Hindu mysticism this akasha is thought to be the primary 
principle of nature from which the other four natural principles, fire, 
air, earth, and water, are created. These five principles also 
represent the five senses of the human being.

http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/a/akashic_records.htm

All the Witchcraft 'metaphors' apply here: Flying, Astral Travel, "Hearing Voices".
Everything out there that us weird folk pick up on [that the muggles-less straights 
out here can't] can be picked up, graphed, run through the spectrometer and 
proved to exist/work. But, but, but. . . .

It not just that the doors of perception are cleaned up. 

It's that you can see the doors.

If you're real good, you can decipher the writing on the doors.

And you realize that you have the option of trying another door, 
one you never thought of before. And after you go through the 
strangely marked door you find youself in another, almost familiar World.

Hesse's Steppenwolf comes to mind.



       
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