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Old Feb 13, 2011, 01:03 AM
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I've been in altered states of consciousness on occasion but my personal impression is that the ones I gained the most from weren't drug-assisted and the ones that were drug-assisted didn't seem to leave me with very much that I could take away from the experience afterwards.

Pretty much everything I've ever participated in that I found life-changing in any way, whether it was a friendship, some sort of therapy, a group experience, or (infrequently) a chemically induced state, I've later found myself wanting or even needing to repeat. Much more often than not, it's looked to me afterwards as if it was that particular friend, that particular therapist, that particular group, or that particular chemical that had worked whatever magic there had been, so the experience wasn't going to be available to me without them.

I know that at times I've thought so even about experiences that I later found I could create for myself without outside assistance, chemical or otherwise. Quite likely, if I'd been holding out for outside assistance I wouldn't have discovered what I could do without it.
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