Dear Joe:

It has been a delight reading your last post: refreshingly honest. You believed in those things as a way to escape a mundane life, you wrote; a diversion away from a reality. adding excitement to an uneventful life…avoiding life, living in a fantasy life… an excuse to avoid life… to avoid doing things.

There was a payoff then, for believing in those things… but also a price to pay: cognitive dissonance, as you put it, causing you anxiety and stress.

And your position at this point: concentrate on “the land of the living”- and I suppose you mean by that, concentrate on what is clearly here, not maybe, but clearly real.

Great post, speaks for itself… a Must Read, says I- you have my Wow, Joe.

Regarding hallucinogenics- no experience although I experienced a couple of hallucinations not induced by drugs: one in which I was flying, not in an airplane, just me, in the sky, endless sky. Felt so real.

anita