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Five years his senior, John was an aspiring scientist—he would receive a scholarship to study neurophysiology—who kept “an exquisite laboratory in the basement,” a realm that was Paul’s idea of heaven, but to which John seldom granted his little brother admittance.
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
“Are they real?
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
The shame of this has its own perverted delusion: an addict’s pride in the genius it takes to satisfy an addiction.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Medical researchers who were attracted to the new drug included the young Sigmund Freud: