I liked it. Its a good book. The emphasis on inaction by part of the tripper nails it in the head in my personal experience. For example, here he refers to inaction and unatachment from the psychedelic bodily sensations;
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1. Bodily pressure, which the Tibetans call earth-sinking-into-water;
2. Clammy coldness, followed by feverish heat, which the Tibetans call water-sinking-into-fire; 3. Body
disintegrating or blown to atoms, called fire-sinking-into-air; 4. Pressure on head and ears, which Americans
call rocket-launching-into-space; 5. Tingling in extremities; 6. Feelings of body melting or flowing as if wax;
7. Nausea; 8. Trembling or shaking, beginning in pelvic regions and spreading up torso.
These physical reactions should be recognized as signs heralding transcendence. Avoid treating them as
symptoms of illness, accept them, merge with them, enjoy them."
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Yeah, all that stuff quoted there is real, for me too.
Personally, I don’t need somebody to dissect and analyze the nature of water, after already having been blasted off of the shore by a tsunami.
Nice to have the “this is what it is / could be” attempt to qualify “it” with some set of check-boxes tagging would-be universality in approximating the ineffable.
BUT.
Nobody really knows.
It’s purely subjective, potentially all illusory, and there are no “Answers”.
Fragments of suggestions in the pathway of Divinity, per chance.
It always left me with more questions, and wary concerns for the nature of humans.
-Myself included.
Disciplined focus in deciphering this swirling data steam surrounding us, is my objective, at present.
Being all diffuse and permeable while still tethered to the arduous challenges in this material world, may not work for me anymore.
I dunno.
It will have been a year now, on 10/24/2019, since I last did some strong liquid.
Thrilling? -Yes.
Daunting? -Yes.
The edge of permanent psychosis? -Maybe.
Nuthin’ but respect for “it”.
The spinning house of mirrors may have just thrown me out the door, at long last.
Forward ho....