For everyone who's never taken psychedelics and wonder exactly what it does to your mind, this Jerry Garcia quote is probably the best indicator of its long-term effects on your brain, especially when combined with Eastern mysticism and futuristic techno-babble. People always ask me what LSD is like, I think I'm just going to keep a bunch of index cards w/this quote on it:
Quote from James Jerome Garcia (regarding his time in a Coma in 1986):
"My main experience was one of furious activity and tremendous struggle in a sort of futuristic, space-ship vehicle with insectoid presences. After I came out of my coma, I had this image of myself as these little hunks of protoplasm that were stuck together kind of like stamps with perforations between them that you could snap off.
They were run through with neoprene tubing, and there were these insects that looked like cockroaches which were like message-units that were kind of like my bloodstream. That was my image of my physical self and this particular feeling lasted a long time. It was really strange."
