This is a process of education. What the psychedelic experience is it's the process of education so compressed that it has become a cascade of actual visual images which, rather than a kind of slow unfoldment of linked perception, but really, attention to attention and appreciation of the immediate . And what he meant was to focus attention in the moment, not to betray attention into expectation born of abstraction or regret, born of misplaced assumption, or rememberance born of boredom and alienation in the moment. But just to attend the minute particulars. It's a way of training, it's like yoga.
People think that psychedelics are somehow the easy way out.
I mean, it's very real. It's not a metaphor. It's not an analogy. It's not a semantic reconstruction, it is not a simulacrum, it is not a model. It is the pithessence of the thing itself.