Wow. Thanks a lot for that.
I heard that this section of COPR is even more obscure in its original German.
I think that post-1960s americans are misinterpreting what Kant actually wrote. They think Kant is saying something "deep" about reality and perception likened to a hippy coming down from an LSD trip.
But Kant is not Terrance McKenna. Immanuel Kant is a philosopher speaking on the current state of knowledge in a Europe that was being radically transformed by newtonian science. Historians now call this age the
Enlightenment. While what he was writing was scandalous in his own time, modern people should only see him as a person fleshing out the scientific method.
If I am wrong, and Kant really is a "hippy", feel free to correct me. I wanted to make sure I had the text in front of me before getting into this argument.