In the mescalin experience [... ] Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern. I saw the books, but was not at all concerned with their positions in space. What I noticed, what impressed itself upon my mind was the fact that all of them glowed with living light and that in some the glory was more manifest than in others. [... ]. The mind was primarily concerned, not with measures and locations, but with being and meaning.

— The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley (Page 19)