"It has been many years since I took psychedelics myself, and my abstinence is born of a healthy respect for the risks involved. … My "bad trips" were, without question, the most harrowing hours I have ever endured, and they make the notion of hell—as a metaphor if not an actual destination—seem perfectly apt. … Have you ever traveled, beyond all mere metaphors, to the Mountain of Shame and stayed for a thousand years? I do not recommend it."
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Sam Harris, "Drugs and the Meaning of Life" (2011)
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