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lil  ·  3491 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Vice: We've Been Had, and We Let It Happen

Altered states of consciousness can lead to new ways of thinking. I was on some mushroom extract -- who knows what we were taking back then -- on Salt Spring Island (B.C), on the beach looking at intertidal lifeforms, seeing into the life of things. I decided then and there to take a biology course. Brings to mind Wordsworth's line from Tintern Abbey

  While with an eye made quiet by the power	
  Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,	
  We see into the life of things.