Observations placeholder
Michaux, Henri - Miserable Miracle Mescaline - The glass stairway
Identifier
004034
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Henri Michaux – Miserable Miracle Mescaline
Sometimes a glass stairway, a stairway like a Jacob's ladder, a stairway with more steps than I could climb in three entire lifetimes, a stairway with ten million steps, a stairway without landings, a stairway up to the sky, the maddest, most monstrous feat since the tower of Babel, rose into the absolute. Suddenly I could not see it any longer. The stairway had vanished like the bubbles in champagne, and I continued my navigation, struggling not to roll, struggling against suctions and pullings, against infinitely small jumping things, against stretched webs, and arching claws