You know, you don't want to try and pigeonhole the psychedelic experience
because what it is, is it's everything
I mean, one, you think you've got it figured out, and that it's always going to
be this, and then the next time, it's completely something else
So much can be done
So much can be structured and learned
I mean, I think basically the kind of psychedelic experiences
most of us have been having have been just reconnoitering
You know, we sail over the territory and photograph
the landscape and take it back and study it
But what you could do if you landed down there, what you could do if you actually
learned the way of it, is I think you could
It's very inviting
In spite of the fact that psychedelics have been around for 50,000 to 100,000
years, I still can't shake the impression
that it's going to have a historical impact
That they're going to eventually get around to noticing how odd it is
and noticing that it's right in the center of ourselves
The real problem is getting the word out about what it is
So many people have taken a little bit of LSD or a little bit of psilocybin or
something, and then they think, they know what the psychedelic experience is
But you have to spend time poking around, and you have to take chances
And eventually the ice will break underneath you into your absolute horror
The thing you have been trying to cause to happen will then happen
But you almost always have to trick yourself, trap yourself into it
I don't know what the limit of this stuff is
I certainly have been as stoned as I ever want to get
And I said at the time, let it be noted, I
don't ever want to be more loaded than this
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