Agreed. I had a similar life changing experience with LSD — my fiance and I took it several times together and it was beyond divine. It felt like we discovered and recognised in each other, the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine. It was the most beautiful experience of my entire life.

Even now, if people ask me, I will tell them I love LSD and that it opened the doors of perception in my mind forever. I now love psychedelic music, art and all creative things that speak to the psychedelic experience. Even if I don’t take psychedelics often anymore, I can always enjoy the art and music — psychill, psytrance, Android Jones etc.

However.

I know exactly what you mean about taking psychedelics too often. You can absolutely abuse them. They’re not physically addictive, but you can get hooked on the feeling of divinity or enlightenment.

For me I experienced no worse than one bad trip on mushrooms and a realisation that I needed to scale back how often I took psychedelics. So now I don’t take them more than once every 6 months.

But my fiance went through a period where he would take high doses of mushrooms every weekend for several months. He began to believe more and more that the divinity he felt while high was literal reality, rather than archetypal or metaphorical. He started to believe that he WAS a god.

It culminated in a bad trip that caused an almighty psychotic break with reality. He hallucinated that his best friend was a murderer trying to kill him (I witnessed this over WhatsApp video). He then shot this friend, thinking he was acting in self defence.

Lives ruined forever, due to psychedelic abuse.

And even now, years later, he still hallucinates and has delusions, even without the drug.

So absolutely, I will not lie that psychedelics can be the most beautiful thing in the world. Or rather they can make you see the most beautiful things in the world — the souls of other human beings, and the interconnectedness of all life.

But they can also be hideous. So I will ALWAYS warn people about what psychedelics can do, if you’re not careful.