Drugs were absolutely central to that experience, but they weren't essential. I only know that in retrospect. At the time I'm sure I would have said that they were.
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you know, ingesting the right chemical was absolutely essential.
in retrospective it was just important being there and be somehow..open.to possibilities.
what i couldn`t have been told, in that stage of my life, is that all any drug amounts to is tweaking the incoming data. You have to be incredibly self-centered or pathetic to be satisfied with simply tweaking the incoming data.
With amount of right drug anything is groovy, with amount of right drug you can have open heart surgery, but you know, who want`s that?
my experiance has been that beyond the certain point, there`s only a pathology. you aren`t dealing with a personality, you are dealing with a kind of hard-wired pathology, you are dealing with a chemical entity, a neuro-chemical entity, that doesn`t really much to do with who is a person, that`s manifesting in.
recreational drugs are essentially a wank. a wank is ok, but you really should be aware that it is just a wank.
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