Twilight
Rising Star
Having read many of McKenna's books and hearing some of his interviews over the years I decided to peek through the doorway to see for myself what he was talking about. When doing so for about five minutes I found myself viewing a scene of unexpected elegance surpassing anything experienced through the use of an entheogen before as the blackness produced by my closed eye lids in a darkened room became an offering of gorgeous brightly glowing crystalline neon light filled jewels. Lovely deep ruby red, golden yellow, rich green and blue self-transforming jewels which changed shape and shades of color from one to another. The reds becoming a brighter shade of red, the yellows becoming more golden and then green, the blues more towards violet. The largest of them all in the center was a slowly rotating yellow-golden colored flower-like crystalline form.
All of the transforming-morphing jewel-like objects were contained in the frame of a multi-partitioned and open box-like container floating in the center of my vision, each section within it randomly containing a collection of different sized jewels which was turned towards me giving full view of its contents of living light forms. At some point I noticed that the background behind the box of jewels was no longer black and as they faded from view I could see a tall majestic domed cavern embedded with hundreds of equidistant points of light which appeared to be both a dome and a dark blue star filled sky at the same time. This whole vision was outlined by a delicate black filigree around the edges similar to what might be found as a highly detailed and fine laser cut decorative border mat for a work of art which after a few minutes all slowly faded back into the darkness of my closed eyes.
The scene was as if I had been greeted by some kind of living art. After the experience all I could say to myself about it was holy, holy, holy… the short lasting vision had a look and feeling of an extraordinary holy and divine nature.
All of the transforming-morphing jewel-like objects were contained in the frame of a multi-partitioned and open box-like container floating in the center of my vision, each section within it randomly containing a collection of different sized jewels which was turned towards me giving full view of its contents of living light forms. At some point I noticed that the background behind the box of jewels was no longer black and as they faded from view I could see a tall majestic domed cavern embedded with hundreds of equidistant points of light which appeared to be both a dome and a dark blue star filled sky at the same time. This whole vision was outlined by a delicate black filigree around the edges similar to what might be found as a highly detailed and fine laser cut decorative border mat for a work of art which after a few minutes all slowly faded back into the darkness of my closed eyes.
The scene was as if I had been greeted by some kind of living art. After the experience all I could say to myself about it was holy, holy, holy… the short lasting vision had a look and feeling of an extraordinary holy and divine nature.
