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Concerning how other people are seen, Alan Watts in his book, The Joyous Cosmology says on pages 50-51:

"The people with me are no longer the humdrum and harassed little personalities with names, addresses and social security numbers, the specifically dated mortels we are all pretending to be. They appear rather as immortal archetypes of themselves without, however, losing their humanity. It is just that their differing characters seem to contain all history. They are at once unique and eternal, men and women but also gods and goddesses. For now that we have time to look at each other we become timeless. The human form becomes immeasurably precious and, as if to symbolize this, the eyes become intelligent jewels, the hair spun gold and the flesh translucent ivory."

In this chapter, we took a look at some of the perceptual possibilities that LSD offers, without yet getting into perception of color and light and what's seen with the eyes closed.

We'll close this chapter with a repeat of my favorite sentence from the previous chapter. This time, when you read that sentence, it may be more meaningful than the first time you read the sentence. It said that LSD is an electrifying, fascinating, beautiful, sparkling, dazzling, radiant, glowing, glorious, awesome, divine, heavenly, joyous, sensuous, euphoric, ecstatic, majestic, magical, magnificent, miraculous, sensational, spectacular, exciting, intense, dramatic, overwhelming awakening of experience.

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