Psychedelic drugs are unique among other psychoactive chemicals in that users often describe «
expanded consciousness,» including enhanced associations, vivid imagination and dream - like states.
This idea of cosmic consciousness ---- later transformed slightly into concepts like «
expanded consciousness,» at which point, in the late 1960s, it fed into ideas about the
psychedelic and transformative powers of LSD and other
drugs ---- is something that is comprehensible in Fleming's paintings even if you don't know a thing about theories of the fourth dimension.