When a book eventually appeared the dorsan perception, in which he described this experience, it was kind of criticised from two directions. Some felt that to attain to these kind of mystical insights, you had to follow a path of spiritual discipline. That was one criticism. The other criticism was of people like an, as i say, thomas mann who felt tat this was aa betrayal of the rationalist ethos. He adoted that tha he felt modern mind shoulde express. Very much the rational man reacting against an idea that therei, there is a reality that can be excessed by psychodelic drugs.
Nicholas Murray is a freelance author and journalist based in Wales and London. Born in Liverpool, he is the author of several literary biographies including lives of Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Bruce Chatwin, Andrew Marvell and Matthew Arnold, five collections of poems, and two novels. His biography of Matthew Arnold was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997, and his biography of Aldous Huxley was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Prize in 2003. His biography of Franz Kafka has been translated into nine languages.
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