I think that the psychedelic revolution—the expanding interest in psychedelics—is one of the things that’s actually driving the paradigm shift at the moment, because most people aren’t very interested in reading detailed arguments about the nature of reality, the nature of nature, and so forth. I am personally, but I very soon realized that this is a minority interest, whereas most people are interested in their own experience—and rightly so. If they’ve had experiences that break open their worldview and show that it is far too limited, far too incomplete, then this breakthrough is a very
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