I realize I should explain this for the youngsters:
“I saw an unremarkable landscape and had a fried chicken on acid and it was amazing” is funny! But if you’ve ever been on psychedelics you realize how amazing all the leaves on all those trees on all those hills must have been. The post is simultaneously both!
“Very many things, nestled in very many structures and hierarchies, responding simultaneously but in complex ways to the same natural but complex influences (like wind)” is VERY much something you appreciate on LSD.
Like, fractals and chaos theory and database programming and ecological modeling and a lot of the 70s stuff that led to today was VERY LSD-influenced and the pioneers were very open about their debt to it
I would not be who I am today, someone who can see different layers of history and culture and my self move fluidly and know how to accept and chart that without psychedelic experience I prepared for years ahead of time
Maybe THAT’S an issue that needs addressing, in the 1950s our pop-culture leaders started doing psychedelic unveiling rituals as the successor to Freudianism, did we let that lapse? Like, in the 90s the internet was WIRED technoshamanism and the internet won, so all you millennials and zoomers took entheogens when you were 17 or so too, right?
(I recommend mushrooms over LSD to newbies, they’re backed by a warm serotonin love-of-the-universe where acid can be cold and mathy and 8 hours of epic exploration of your failings)