…I have good hopes that this and similar work will result in the development of a real Natural History of visionary experience, in all its variations, determined by differences of physique, temperament and profession, and at the same time of a technique of «Applied Mysticims» —a technique for helping individuals to get the most out of their trascendental experience and to make use of the insights from the «Other World». (Meister Eckhart wrote that «What is taken in by contemplation must be given out in love».) Essentially this is what must be developed —the art of givin out in love and intelligence what is taken in from vision and the experience of self-transcendence and solidaritty with the Universe…[19]
Aldous Huxley a Albert Hofmann