Heresy

[Michael Bailey]

 Bekah wrote:

>   So I found some weird wine and got
> happy for a long time.   Sobered up in 1980.
>

what kinda wine?


Page wrote:
>It would be difficult to provide an example of insights that can be put into words. It would >require too much scene setting, and some lengthy and boring autobiography.
Robin:
> like Proust?


 Remembrance of Trips Past...

 3 insights, that it really brought home, I'm sure there's other ways
to learn them -
(besides the original 2 from my first trip - a hospital isn't
necessarily a fun place to trip,
and supply chains for acid in this country are dodgy)

1)  there's many different ways you can experience life, and to some
extent you've a choice

2) control is a 2 edged blade

3)  something really small, like a dose of lsd, can have a
surprisingly big effect

and a 4th, bonus, one
 there's a time for  everything, like when you want to trip and then
you take some
and that makes you happy
and then you want to come down and you  do
and that makes you happy (and usually very tired)

oh, and, 5th - cleaning your fingernails is very soothing, if you do it gently

oh wait, one more, 6) something about how it illustrates your thoughts for you
(or, under its influence you illustrate your thoughts much more readily),
which if you rock with it can be a lot of fun...

wait, 7 -  sometimes you get some that is really strong, other times not so much

and 8 - it isn't always that much fun...(at least, the way I did it - YMMV)
it sets you apart a bit. That, and worrying about legality and what it's been
cut with, made me stop after about 100 trips while still a
teenager...but listening
to Pharoah Sanders' "Karma" on acid is still one of the high water
marks of my life

I saw Baba Ram Dass speak one time (at band camp...) and he had this
anecdote about how he gave a presentation on all the insights he got from
acid, and a lady accosted him afterwards and said "I know exactly what you
mean.  I get the same thing from knitting"


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