"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite."

—William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Blake was not describing a mystical technique or a special state. He was describing what ordinary experience might look like without the film of habit, assumption, and managed expectation that tends to settle over it. The doors are already there. The infinity is already present. What obscures it is not absence but accumulation—the layers of interpretation we place over what is actually here.

Self-will is a particularly effective door-obscurer. When we are busy managing outcomes, securing our position, or defending our version of events, experience narrows. The world contracts to the size of our concerns. What might happen when the grip loosens—even briefly—is not the acquisition of something new. It may be the simple, startling return of what was always already there.