"If you teach someone to meditate or to do yoga or to go on pilgrimage to some holy mountain, nothing is guaranteed to happen.  Yet if you are given 5 dried grams of magic mushrooms or DMT or some other potent psychedelic, whoever you are, a freight train of significance is going to be coming your way in a matter of moments."    ...

                      "The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."    J. K. Galbraith

"Although a bad LSD trip can be extremely frightening and...