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William Burroughs et al - Chapel of Extreme Experience
Identifier
002068
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Talking about Mind machines ..............A description of the experience
Chapel of Extreme Experience - John Geiger
William S. Burroughs said: “Flicker administered under large dosage and repeated later could well lead to overflow of brain areas … Anything that can be done chemically can be done in other ways.”
Aldous Huxley called it “an aid to visionary experience.”
Timothy Leary called it “the most sophisticated neurophenomenological device ever designed.”
William Burroughs experimented with the machine for nearly four decades.