exhuberation

"Charting the Final Frontiers of Inner Space":

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After the visionary period was abating, I opened my eyes. My room materialised before me as I felt the entheogenic effects subside. I must say gentlemen, that as I felt myself returning to the normal space-time continuum, I was very much relieved! I remember gasping with relief. Well, it was a cross between a gasp and a joyous exclamation. I was in a state of extreme exhuberation for I could not really believe all that had happened to me. For I looked at the clock and saw that no more than 4 or 5 minutes had elapsed since I had drawn in the Anadenanthera vapours. Five minutes! Can you believe that gentlemen? That in a mere 300 seconds my soul, my essence, all that was me, had left this world and travelled to a transcendental dimension? Naturally I was astonished, and for perhaps ten minutes or so I was fairly ecstatic with glee, like a small child in fact. I felt that nothing could frighten me anymore. And I also felt that death, or what we normally conceive of as death, was an absurdity, a crass illusion that was very, very far from the truth.

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