The Proverbs of Hell

[Nomada]

Aphorisms have a certain power, then, by this virtue they are holy-and-thus-multi-edged swords.

TThe greatest blessing of all is also the greatest curse.
how many opposites have you coalesced?

Blake went touristing to the scarlet concentric circus circles of the bottom and came back with some dangerous linguistic bots worth meditating upon.

My precious is to watch you intensive psychonauts dressed in flames,
magma psychofluid pouring out of your vulcano heads,
Burn ourself in holy fire.

 

[Nomada]

The rest of it.

PS. Maybe some runner ups for the holy church of psychonuts.com...[?]

 

[GOD]

Maybe if you resized all your pictures we could see them .

 

[Nomada]

Forgive me. I'm done. is that better?

 

[GOD]

Yes . Thanks , now i can see them without walking 5 meters away .

 

[restin]

I William Blake.

Genious.

To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

There are merely more beautiful lines in English literature than these...

 

[Nomada]

Blake, there's a man who suffered from HDDP.

poor dear.

 

[restin]

really??

Well,explains why he was a visualist...

what drugs did he take?

 

[GOD]

A man that sufered from a modern anti drug propoganda fantasy disorder ??? Is this evidence of time travel ?

 

[restin]

I couldn't find any connection of Blakes vision in a connection with drugs...

I just read that he had them since he was a child.

Maybe you mean something different with HDDP?

 

[Nomada]

I haven't found any evidence of Blake using drugs.

Nonetheless he had a severely distorted consciousness that allowed his visions.
Most his inspiration was, naturally, cognitively experienced by himself and his art was just a portrait of what his imagination was revealing to himself.
For him, imagination is a sacred faculty; and he was so radical in this position that he would not modify his own work after been put on ink. In other words, everything he wrote was a kind of draft.
He was a genius.

:weedman:

 

[restin]

I think it was rather native than acquired...

 

[psm]

I haven't found any evidence of Blake using drugs.

depends on what could be considered drug back then. laws were very different and the use of all kinds of natural mind altering substances was very common. the herbalist (as long as not burned by the inqisition) had a lot to offer. belladonna, mandrake and many more. hamp was very common in that time (the founding fathers were potheads). i'd say it's out of question IF he took something, it's more about WHAT he took.

 

[restin]

1. His visions are said to have existed since his childhood.

2. If taking herbals what that common, a lot of people would have had such genious visions, which os obviously not the case.

 

[Meduzz]

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth

I really like this one

 

[Nomada]

"i'd say it's out of question IF he took something, it's more about WHAT he took. "

I want some of what he's having! :smoke:
I've thought about it too and come to the same conclusion, he must have been doing something. But why is it never mentioned [the way we would normally understand it]? nor in his works or his notes and letters to friends.

Maybe it is mentioned, only coded for some few endowed with polivision?

I love: "Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by incapacity."

 

[psm]

1. His visions are said to have existed since his childhood.

Even last century (and it still might be so today in some regions) cocain was used against toothache, poppy seeds to calm crying baybies and other "medical" substances were given to kids.
I don't see any reason why visions should not occure.
I am sure, I had visions as a child.

2. If taking herbals what that common, a lot of people would have had such genious visions, which os obviously not the case.

Because ignorance was even more common. And then again, throught history there were many jesuses like William Blake, many great minds. And for most I know about, one or another drug was common.
Shakespaer, Goethe, Bach, Beethoven, Tesly, Vivaldi, Verne, da Vinci, Dante, Paracelsius, Joshua ben Joseph and many many more.
There were heaps of people with such genious visions.

Did anything really change? How many people take drugs? And how many of them are on a path to enlightenment? How many are just simple burners, stoners and abusers? No matter which drug it is. Only a percentage is actually on a trip, path or vision.

I see no contradiction.

I think, I even read a poem on mary jane from blake a while back. Sure, not very common knowledge and possibly the thing they would leave out in school. But so are the letters of G. Washington, in which he praises the differences of indica and sativa, not only on industrial traits.

 

[Nomada]

I have and idea. go to hyperspace and ask him for yourself.

If you could ask something to a dead man, any; what would it be?

 

[restin]

I'd probably ask Jesus if he's happy about what he's done...

 

[BrainEater]

I'd probably ask Jesus if he's happy about what he's done...

yes!!!! blame jesus for having been holy!!!!!!!!!!


lol it's more than pathetic, really.... as if jesus WANTED all the mocking of him and his father throughout history after his death.... ???



peace :weedman: