"If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with his eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen."
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Alan Watts: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness. (This statement was redacted from later editions.)
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