Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson@algekalipso• about 1 year ago

I remember meeting a ~65 year old botanist and anthropologist at a conference a few years ago. His favorite activity is taking 600 to 1200 micrograms of LSD alone deep in the forest. He had done it hundreds of times. Other than that, he was extremely square. Would wake up every day at 6AM, meditate, do yoga at 8AM, and then get to work (writing books) which he would do for 10 hours a day, and eat the same food at the same time every day, and go to sleep early, around 9:30PM, every day. And then every other weekend, he would have a high dose forest LSD trip alone. He would take it in the morning and be right back home in time for dinner, which he appreciated as he could still do the same routine after coming down and not miss any sleep. So far he has never lost any sleep due to LSD; he just knows how to time it well. He "got" the topological solution to the boundary problem right away even though he isn't technical, and that is because he could relate it to various things that he had experienced on LSD. Also, he gave me one great piece of advice: "The main thing that LSD punishes you psychologically for is for having strong opinions - so I just don't have strong opinions anymore. I learn as much as I can, because knowledge is always good, but do I have an opinion on complex topics people struggle to understand? No, because that destroys peace of mind while on high dose LSD". He is a remarkably amiable and kind man, as far as I can tell.