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“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”

– William Blake

During a visit to a “printing house in hell,” Blake learns that diabolic printing is conducted with corrosives (that is by etching). This method helps to “cleanse the doors of perception.” Blake promises to adopt this “infernal method” in his own works back on Earth.

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Noetic Vision is intended to be an instrument for cleansing the doors of perception. Whether or not it manages to scratch the surface of that intent, that is the design behind the name. There are various ways of cleansing and opening the doors. They include dreams, intuition, inspired art and writing, clairvoyance, shamanic practices, the siddhis of yoga tradition, and more. Some of those will be considered here.

Noetic comes from the Greek word, Nous.

“Nous, also called intellect or intelligence, is a philosophical term for the faculty of the human mind which is described in classical philosophy as necessary for understanding what is true or real, very close in meaning to intuition. It is also often described as a form of perception which works within the mind (the mind’s eye), rather than only through the physical senses.”

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The Greek philosphers saw Nous the primary source and motivating force behind the cosmos:

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, born about 500 BC, is the first person who is definitely known to have explained the concept of a nous (mind), which arranged all other things in the cosmos in their proper order, started them in a rotating motion, and continuing to control them to some extent, having an especially strong connection with living things.

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In this quote,  Max Plank, the founder of quantum physics, seems to agree :

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
– Max Planck, As quoted in The Observer (25 January 1931)