The selflessness that is the hallmark of a nonordinary state is only a hop, skip, and a jump from the brainwashing the Pentagon so desperately sought in the 1950’s. Timelessness, devoid of reference points, can feel a lot like paranoid schizophrenia and has been a linchpin of solitary confinement for centuries. The euphoric neurochemistry of effortlessness, as John Lilly realized, can create dependency on whoever can administer that next hit of bliss. Information richness can be mined as a truth serum, as the MK-ULTRA docs attempted, or amped up to overwhelm the unwilling, as the military
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