The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys

by James Fadiman

But there are those of us who believe that however one ascends the mountain, the view from the summit is the same.

Now I understand that I had never even begun to penetrate what beauty was all about. While the incredible and intense immediate experience of beauty faded rapidly after the experiment, a door had been opened in my mind and senses that would never close completely.

I don’t mean to suggest that we had all ingested “wisdom” pills and achieved enlightenment, far from it. But the geography of wisdom was now a discernable, available territory.

To push them aside because they can be damaging when used badly is no wiser than to eliminate headache tablets because overdoses are harmful to the liver.