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Gysin, Brion - Watching the light through trees
Identifier
002056
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
This is how he got the idea for the mind machines
A description of the experience
Extract from the diary of Brion Gysin December 21, 1958
Had a transcendental storm of colour visions today in the bus going to Marseilles. We ran through a long avenue of trees and I closed my eyes against the setting sun. An overwhelming flood of intensely bright colors exploded behind my eyelids: a multidimensional kaleidoscope whirling out through space. I was swept out of time. I was out in a world of infinite number. The vision stopped abruptly as we left the trees. Was that a vision? What happened to me?”