"There. No drugs, just reflection, same result." It's one thing to talk about oneness and accept it on an intellectual level, quite another thing to experience

"There. No drugs, just reflection, same result." It's one thing to talk about oneness and accept it on an intellectual level, quite another thing to experience it. Houston Smith, one of the greatest religious scholars, had already had a whole career writing and talking about religion, but when he finally took a psychedelic he said that he finally got to experience what he was writing about. There have been studies that have shown that most people who take psychedelics in a therapeutic context consider their trips to be some of the most important experiences of their lives, some consider them to be the single most important experience in their life. These experiences are not equivalent to what you'd get from reading a bumper sticker or an Einstein quote. Most people who are condescending towards psychedelic experiences don't know what the hell they're talking about. They're like little kids laughing at the thought of having sex without ever having any.