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#1 — Drugs And The Meaning Of Life

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Psychoactive Drugs - The Only Way to Awaken

Everything that one can experience on a drug is at some level an expression of the brain's potential. Whatever one has seen or felt after injesting alis d is likely to have been seen or felt by some one somewhere without it. Positive psychodelic experiences often reveal how wondrously at ease in the universe a human being can be. But as the peaks are high, the valleys are deep. My bad trips were, without question, the most harrowing hours i have ever endured. And they make the notion of hell as a metaphor, if not an actual destination, seem perfectly apt.

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