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

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Having a Sense of Individuality

In the middle 19 fifties, a british psychiatrist by the name of humphrey osmond persuaded a britISH novelist to take a dose of mesculin. Aldas huxley felt that having taken mescalin gave him an experience which he could not but identify with the great mystical experience of man's integration to the universe. He who has seen me has seen the father. That was an absolutely unacceptable pronouncement to his contemporaries, and so he got crucified. We are, i hope, a more tolerant age. And we are, i think, really in need of experiencing the relationship of the individual to the physic world in a way that is more

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