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

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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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