One does not easily return to the work-spend-reproduce cycle after an afternoon-lifetime with the machine-elves, at least not without a pervasive sense of unease.
Does any strongly held belief withstand a transformative experience? How many soldiers return from a tour of duty with identical fact-sensing and political beliefs? How many intellectually impoverished students graduate from college with the same belief systems they brought with them from home?
What I find remarkable, once again, about psychedelic drugs is their high reliability in creating transformative experience. Perhaps it is this rather than the transformative experience itself that is key.
Does any strongly held belief withstand a transformative experience? How many soldiers return from a tour of duty with identical fact-sensing and political beliefs? How many intellectually impoverished students graduate from college with the same belief systems they brought with them from home?
What I find remarkable, once again, about psychedelic drugs is their high reliability in creating transformative experience. Perhaps it is this rather than the transformative experience itself that is key.