We aren't living in the most prudish of time periods, but we certainly haven't been trail blazing as much as we think we have. A lot of ideas that were explored more than half a century ago are still realms left unmapped. In "The Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley, we get, next to a dive into what Huxley would call a visit with the antipodes of our reality, also a manifesto that argues for a serious undertaking into the chemical wedding that takes place in our heads when we exhaust the body and leave room for the mind at large. But more than half a century later the field is still very much understudied and I think it would disappoint Huxley a bit, who assumed we would have, most likely, made a lot more progress by now.
In "Heaven and Hell", Huxley further explores what happens when we tamper with the psychic censor of the brain's chemistry. Messing with the brain puts us at risk, but the rewards are still there and of enormous value to our understanding of reality and subsequent feeling of belonging. In this episode, we will tamper with the ideas of both books and the connection there is between doors of perception being opened and the dangerous risks we take that learn us something about the gates of death.
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Intro track: Graal - Kroon VII
