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> Reading this stuff is always eye opening for me. but actually making it a part of your thinking and perspective is a whole other ball of wax.

I think this is a good description of the effect of LSD.

A lot of the concepts that come up in your mind are things you have probably herd before, but in that moment you feel like you not only have understood their meaning, but also internalized it - attached an emotion to it so to say.

That's why I think it has such potential in psychotherapy: There might be a lot of useful concepts that you might have rationally understood, but actually 'discarded' them on an emotional level.



I've never tried drugs but the sudden emotional understanding you describe is all too familiar.




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