William Blake and the Psychedelic Renaissance. Seven facets of cultural transformation

Inner Life, Talks and Thoughts - A podcast by Mark Vernon

William Blake is famous for his phrase "cleansing the doors of perception". But he has much, much more to offer the renewed interest in psychedelics underway in our times.He responds to the need for a social and spiritual setting, widely recognised by those investigating psychedelics now, so that personal experiences can be not only beneficial for individuals but transformative in cultural.Here, I discuss facets of his insight that suggest seven elements in which the psychedelic experience ov...