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Ep. 7 – Drugs: Turning the Head or Turning On
Alan Watts Being in the Way
Everything in the Universe Is the Smell of Burnt Almonds
The experience itself, in its utmost simplicity was once written down by somebody who took a nitrous oxide and had a sense of total clarity about all the problems of life. When he returned to normal consciousness, he saw that what he had written was everything in this universe as the smell of burnt almonds. The word implies is probably better than the word is: there are certain states of consciousness in which you experience that everything is interconnectede everything goes with everything else. I knew a woman who got in an accident in an elevator. She hadn't taken any drugs, but in this accident, she was pinned with her leg caught in the mechanism. And she was having agonies, but she knew that
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