Blaise Pascal
A friend who has taken drugs with Psilocybin once told me that “yes, there are visual effects, but the most important thing is that you are forced to sit quietly with yourself and think for 12 hours”. It is easy to feel one with the world and be enlightened if you are a monk, living in the mountains and can meditate for 10 hours every day without having to think about your career, but most of us are so scared of wasting time and achieving “nothing” in life, that to spend the entire day doing nothing would cause anxiety so great, that we would rather electrocute ourselves. [link]
