I have tripped on psilocybin and LSD but not until I read Michael Pollan’s book, “How To Change Your Mind”, did I find better expression of the experience for which language fails to be adequate. I believe it is less important what we look like in 1,000 years than what we (equally including us and all that surrounds us) will BE like. In fact, I am relatively convinced that absent our being different we won’t be here to look or be looked upon.

The essential idea of those of us who have had what we perceive to be “mystical” (I will leave that word undefined) impressions from being psychonauts is often similar to a cliche platitude Hallmark card (expression lifted from Pollan) only infused with powerful feeling and a “knowing” (William James). These often repeated ideas include “everything is one and all connected”, “love is everything”, “everything is energy and intelligence”, “meaning is in being not doing”, “really seeing all the colors and sounds is astonishing, one moment of experience is everything”, “there is no time or space, brightest or darkest, center or edge, biggest or smallest, beginning or end — only infinity and nothing is ever gained or lost”, and so forth.

The greatest unexplored and underutilized and distorted attribute of humans is consciousness. For me the whole question is what will our consciousness be in 1,000 years and for that progress I can contribute love today.