Heresy

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 13, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Page wrote:

> Discussing experiences on LSD falls into the philosophers' category  
> of non-propositional knowledge. That is, knowledge that cannot be  
> passed on verbally. A common example is riding a bicycle. Once you  
> learn how to do it, you know, but it is impossible to pass on that  
> knowledge in a textbook, or by desription alone. Describing LSD  
> experiences is the same. Bekah nicely described two events in her  
> life. I have some idea of what those experiences were like, but only  
> because I have benchmarks for such experiences. Yet, I do not fully  
> understand her experiences because they are hers, and I wasn't there.

In July of 1983, I became a Tarot card—go ahead, call me a T.W.I.T.,  
it would certainly match the rules of that particular game in "Against  
the Day"—the Temperance card, to be precise. My entire being, all my  
consciousness, became that card and everything that card represents. I  
didn't realize that's what happened until two years later because I  
didn't know what a Temperance card was in 1983. I can hardly express  
what it means to become a Temprance card [obviously] but there was a  
lot of flying involved and the production values were out of this  
world [sorry]. After spending some timeless time as ATU 14, I found  
myself just before sunrise on a dewey lawn in a park, and started  
looking for the nearest men's room. Two-three years later a friend who  
studied the Tarot heard my story [like Sortilège, she was patient and  
clear-headed and asked a lot of questions] and showed me a B.O.T.A.  
Temperance card. . . .

I love the reference to the bicycle. Albert Hoffman "came on" for the  
very first time while riding his bicycle.