Namit Arora at Shunya’s Notes:
My first time with psilocybin turned out to be a dazzlingly vivid, emotionally intense and deeply joyous experience, surpassing all expectations based on my pre-reading. I felt an intense outpouring of love and a profound sense of oneness with the natural world—an experience commonly reported by psilocybin users. I have learned that many articulate people, too, find themselves at a loss for words when trying to describe their psilocybin experiences. I now understand why.
I’m still processing this powerful experience, but I’ll nevertheless try to put some of it into words, however inadequately. I’m aware that in doing so, I run the risk of looking ridiculous, certainly to those who have never ventured or desired to see the truths and realities of their world from anything other than the ‘default settings’ of their contingent brain chemistry—one that evolution has arguably optimized for survival, rather than for apprehending truth or reality.
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