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The Relationship Between the Hierarchy and the Individual Structures Human Perception
"I don't believe that the idea that you can get from the world of facts to the world of values without intermediation is true," he says. "We don't know how human beings perceive the world, and it seems impossible because there's so many ways ... It's not obvious at all How we can settle on the one that we use at any given moment." In psychedelic experience, people lose their ability to see in detail what they normally perceive as vague generalities, he adds. 'Because if you're entranced by its complexity, you want to run out in traffic'