I just think it's one important thing to note that Psychedelic drugs require ritual. Also. as Albert Hoffman once said that LSD should never be used by the common man. Aldous Huxley shared this belief -- that Psychedelics should be reserved for the elite. I disagree, but I definitely share the thinking that way of thinking to an extent. The more of a mind you have, the more fun it is when it's fucked up.

A friend of mine has done shrooms countless times, and acid a few times. All he saw was cool visuals. Had a fun experience. Called it a day.

I once smoked weed and had such an intense experience that it caused me to quit for 8 months. This was after I had been smoking regularly for three months.

My friend is completely uneducated like the rest of the masses, and that I am at least at the level of 'pseudo-intellectual'. Plus, I'm constantly thinking.

The distinction i am trying to draw here is this (and to reiterate): My uneducated friend gets fucked up on some LSD and nothing happens, while I, and slightly above-average, mildly educated person gets thunder-fucked by the fractal nature of reality on a little bit of weed.

And, getting back to ritual (sorry, this post is all over the damn place), I don't mean you need to light candles and need to pray to a god and chant or something. I simply mean that there has to be a protocol to this. You can't just drop some fucking acid and then expect everything to be clear. You need a community or system to help reconcile what it is that you have just seen.

Terence Mckenna has said this far better than I will ever be able to

Oh yeah, and when I say 'education', I mean beyond standard schooling, as in intellectual pursuits outside of standard schooling.