How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan cats been a big
influence of recent
writing of Sidney Cohen a Fifties LSD researcher quotes his first experience October 1955
“. . . the problems and strivings, the worries and frustrations of everyday life [had] vanished; in their place was a majestic, sunlit, heavenly inner quietude . . . I seemed to have finally arrived at the contemplation of eternal truth.” Halleluiah brother
convinced it wasnt temporary psychosis
Cohen called it “unsanity”: “a state beyond the control of the ego.”
not
a flashback not that one would offend or
render him had memories plenty and if
they wanted they were welcome
dug the differentials psycholytic versus psychedelic tickled him
psycholytic non-ordinary state of consciousness while remaining in touch with the present moment
psychedelic an ego-dissolving experienceWhat present moment?time bleeds tie-dye all over the floor mop it up squeeze into a bucket slosh it
round dismembered remembered
out of sorts roulette round and round it goes where it stops no one knows again and again and
again
too enthusiastic
Jah
A fervent enthusiast
LSD
Eucharist
2229, Tuesday,
17 5. 26
1043, reggaefriday,
22 5. 26
Jefferson Airplane Sunrise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Ds7QQf0q0
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