How was Lovecraft talking about opening the pineal gland to see higher reality and interdimensional beings? Was he initiated into something?

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Anonymous Thu Dec 19 15:56:30 2019 No.14379418 [Reply] [Original]

How was Lovecraft talking about opening the pineal gland to see higher reality and interdimensional beings? Was he initiated into something?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 15:59:20 2019 No.14379442 >>14379418 I don't remember where the idea comes from, but the idea that consciousness was produced by the pineal gland used to be a kind of widespread thing, wasn't just occult stuff.

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