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The chemistry of connection

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Benefits of Psychedelics

One of the great rewards of psychedelics is the experience of something so strange and mystical that it can really only invoke just total awe. For me, someone who never really believed in God or anything supernatural, that was the closest thing to divinity I've ever come within a mile of. And there's another great young quote in the book. It says that if our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion isbased on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude. That experience of feeling so small is really liberating.

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