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Ep. 7 – Drugs: Turning the Head or Turning On

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Is It Providential That a Chemical Agent Makes Its Way Into Our World?

The feeling of my being continuous everything that's happening in the physical world fits the facts as described by science more accurately than the normal subjective feeling. And also, i go on to feel that it may be quite important that my state of consciousness be changed for our general survival. Because if i feel myself alien from and against my natural environment, the likelihood is that i shall pick a fight with it,. This i can see is what our culture is already doing. So then the idea occurs to me, is it perhaps providential theyare at this time in history a chemical agent makes itself avelae which will enable us to treat the disease of alienated consciousness? Could it be as providential that

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