The first time i tried mushrooms i found myself wondering the same things about why people cant be like this always. why do people worry? on and on. Also i found it interesting that "sober" (mark the quotes!) is our natural state of being. the more open, babybrained (as you say, and i must say i like the analogy, its very fitting), state of mind feels so much more natural. learning and philosiphising simply works better when we dont have our filters clogging our brain. My friends and i spent a whole 45 minutes discussing "what is a person," defining and speculating and debating as we began to come down from the mushrooms. we decided that "people" is a much better word for what we are than "human"
i am a people, you are a people, we are peoples.
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