Monster Essays - The Snow Leopard
LSD Induced, Yeti, Euphoric Sojourn
Drugs can clear away the past, enhance the present; toward the inner
garden, they can only point the way. Lacking the temper of ascetic discipline, the drug vision remains a sort of dream
that cannot be brought over into daily life. Old mists may be banished, that is true, but the alien chemical agent forms another mist maintaining the separation of the ‘I’ from the true experience of the One.1
This passage comes from The Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthiessen. In this passage Matthiessen describes what he has learned from the experiences he had with halluc....
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