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

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Is Alcohol a Hallucination?

Alcohol does have a valuable service to mankind, but only in strict moderation. More than enough of this chemical is deleterious to the whole human organism. The basic transformation of consciousness which comes about through the use of psychidelic chemicals is probably best described as one of polar feeling. You feel that everything outside is not the opposite of or contradiction of the inside, but it just goes with it. Therefore you see, in a funny way, that all human behaviour goes together in such a way that you cannot have saints without sinners and vice versa.

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