>he could not remember the specifics of his insights,
LOLOL! How many breakthrough insights were made on acid, but then forgotten......
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In college I read a book “The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience”. I was telling a guy I would love to experience all that stuff IF the drugs were safe and no possible brain damage. He had been into drugs for years and cleaned himself up. His dismissal always stayed with me: “Those things are s**t”.