After Psychedelics - by gabe k-s - exteroception

What is to be done with a broken open mind?

Sitting across from William Leonard Pickard1 at a fluorescent lit coffee shop in Northwest Portland, trying to contain my impish wonder as I listen to him recount in hushed, steady tones the various techniques he refined in order to endure two decades of brutal incarceration–this was both the first and the last time I heard anyone in the psychedelic space invoke the notion of natural mind. “The only drug that matters,” Leonard intoned, “the greatest trip of all…” This extolling of natural mind’s many virtues was a follow-up to a breathtakingly vivid account of Leonard’s accidental acid…

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