The Doors of Perception
There are Things That Are Known and Things That Are Unknown and in between are the Doors of Perception
“There are Things That Are Known and Things That Are Unknown and in between are the Doors of Perception.”
I thought this was a William Blake quote but it is a mash up of:
A modified fragment from William Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
In 1954 Aldous Huxley published “The Doors of Perception” and his work did contain comments about doors. But it did not contain a quotation matching the phrase.
“There are things you know about,” said Ray Manzarek of the Doors, “and things you don’t, the known and the unknown, and in between are the Doors–that’s us.
I don’t think I came up with that quote but cannot find it online , so it can kick off this pretentious poem , hopefully worthy of the Lizard King himself.
This is semi controlled blank verse with no defined format
֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎
There are things that are known
And things that are unknown
And Then In Between Are
The Doors of Perception
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The Shaman Will Guide Us
To Some Unearthly Planes
And Reveal To Us Truths
That We Have Never Seen
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O Great Teacher Show Us
The Way Forward From Here
Educate Fallow Minds
Raise Up Our Consciousness
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The Snake King IS Risen
Seven Miles Is His Length
Summoned By The Shaman
And We Shall Now Believe
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Hail To The King of Snakes
Hail To the Shamanic One
Hail The Unknown Elders
Hear Our Uttered Prayers
֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎֎
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Neat stuff. Love the reference to The End - one of my favourite songs; their debut and Strange Days catalyzed much of my interest in music today.