What Drew You to Meditation?

I became curious about meditation in graduate school when I was at the University of Minnesota this would have been about 1971. A local meditation teacher out of Swami Rama's tradition was there and I was intrigued by this idea that this methodology meditation had been developed over thousands of years to explore inner experience. After some trivial experiences with psychedelics it got me to reread that literature and being curious about the nature of opening experiences, I thought well gee maybe this is an opportunity to combine my training and my expertise in clinical trials and psychopharmacology with what I'm now very committed to exploring. That brought us into the study of psilocybin we initiated at the time the first study