What happened on April 19 became known in the psychedelic counter-culture as Bicycle Day: Hofmann's wild, two-and-a-half-mile cycle ride home - no car being available because of wartime - under the mind-bending influence of the powerful drug.
What happened on April 19 became known to the psychedelic counterculture as Bicycle Day: Hofmann's wild, two and a half mile cycle ride home - no car being available because it was wartime - under the mind-bending influence of the powerful drug.
Merrill learned many things from Proust, the subject of his thesis at Amherst, including the idea that art works create their creators; "Matinees" constructs the conditions under which the mind that made it was formed.
And while Paige Martin's "Panorama" was an unwieldy disaster, its opening number is still etched in the mind: under a dusky sky, a group dance graced the space's adjoining garden with a vivid, mystical force.
In one study, 1,100 people with mild cognitive impairment, a possible precursor to dementia, were asked to walk on an electronic walkway under two conditions — with the mind at rest and while counting backwards from 50.
Swiss is talking over dinner about the Too Perfect theory: "What magic is out to do isn't just to amaze you but to achieve what Whit Haydn calls putting 'a burr under the saddle of the mind.' " He leaps up from the table and becomes a man on a tightrope.
"Half an hour ago I gave myself a fix," Trocchi wrote, "I stood the needle and the eye dropper in a glass of cold water and lay down on the bunk… The mind under heroin evades perception as it does ordinarily; one is aware only of contents.
All of the body's activities are under the control of the mind.
But the imagination itself stands – to some extent – under the control of the mind, and is, in fact, "the only means the soul has of arresting the effects of its passions" (ST V.3, 351).
He invokes the same example in the "Inaugural Dissertation" to establish that spatial relations "can only be apprehended by a certain pure intuition" and so show that "geometry employs principles which are not only indubitable and discursive, but which also fall under the gaze of the mind".
That was Jean Amery's point in the essay collected under the title At the Mind's Limts.
