Desert Mysteries
"a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean, and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;"
Their value is not merely that they present us with images of the external world, but they
present us in the most powerful way with images of our own mind, with images of this
deep fundamental essence of the mind from which—from mind at large, from Mind with
a capital ‘M’, from which the individual mind takes it’s source.
Aldous Huxley
"More Nature in Art"
The Human Situation (1959)