1. (see Bloom 1954, Frank (Kepes 1966:3-5).
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2. "Consciousness" is regarded as an undefinable "given"; for "altered state of consciousness," (ASC), see Tart 1969.
3. since it is an impersonal, ineffable Absolute.
4. The other Aztec deity, Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent, typifies the ripple born of wind and water: hence "the breath of life" (Radin 1927:61).
5. The occultist will recognize this description of the numinous element as applicable to mercury, as "having no qualities of itself", but "able to assume any form" (Mitchell 1972:147).
6. Satprem (1968:15) quotes Sri Aurobindo as saying: "A God who cannot smile could not have created this humorous universe."
7. OSC = ordinary state of consciousness.
8. ASC = altered state of consciousness.
9. NOR = non-ordinary reality.
10. It is suggestive that in any ASC, there is characteristic distortion of time, space, and ego, the psychedelic drug experience being an excellent example.
11. Satprem (1968:196) puts the same idea thus: "We are shut up in a personal body only through a tenacious visual derangement."
12. This sort of thing is curiously reminiscent of the Watkins ley lines of England (Mitchell, 1973) and other prehistoric straight lines drawn for unknown purposes on the earth's surface.
13. And reminds one of T. S. Eliot's phrase: "My end is my beginning."
14. See Chapter IV, page 320, also glossary.
15. A good example is the Adamic ecstasy of Chapter IV.
16. "Durative topocosm" is defined on page 206.
17. See
Ornstein R. On the Experience of Time, Penguin, 1969.