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.... continued...

He drove home from the bar laughing with joy the whole way at the beauty of it all. What were the chances. Somehow or another the psychonaut is always drawn to such divine molecules. As if one had an invisible magnet that would attract such things to ones life and way of being. As he contemplated this wonderful coincidence he pulled into the driveway, collected his few things, and went into the house. The dog gives hugs as usual. As he walks in and turns on the lights, he realizes the house in which he had lived for the past year looked playfully different. As he gazed at the LED rope lights he had mounted to the corners of the ceiling weeks before he exclaimed " holy shit I knew there was a reason I put those lights up" as the lights shimmered, bent, and contorted and changed colors before his eyes. He turns the heat on, Sits anxiously in his computer chair at his desk and proceeds to turn on some suitable music for the occasion. Shpongle seemed fitting as he is possibly the most prolific, eccentric, and creative psychedelic electronic artist one could imagine. He turned on something relaxing, added a visualizer for a colorful background, and began to think....

He began to analyze recent past events that he had previously, in his sober mind, not paid much mind to. Analyzing his situation and remembering a few past conversations and events, he settled very comfortably and objectively that he could be doing some things better in his life. Things were okay sure. Great even, all things considered. But with so many plans and things to do, he realized, that even in his typically productive nature, he had been quite lazy lately. Upon this epiphany his neighbor who had provided the hit of LSD at the beginning of the night, had knocked on the door. He was also seeing the world quite vibrantly.... "Hey bud, I saw you were still up so I thought id come by and we could burn some".

The two neighbors sat and talked, heads loaded with LSD, smoking a cannabis pipe, and began to discuss many of their personal issues back and forth. Evaluating each others personal challenges and flaws with total openness and honesty. It was a long 3 or so hour talk that dragged on into the early morning. But he noted upon his neighbors exit how fulfilling it had been. His neighbor was full of interesting perspectives and considered himself a "new-age" thinker with "old-age" wisdom. Though the two did not agree on many things, they always enjoyed each others company and conversation. It was rarely small talk. He began thinking about a video he previously watched on the effects of LSD on the brain. It had talked about the "default mode network". The brains "default functioning mode". And how psychedelics significantly reduce blood flow to this neural network making it much less active. This causes the brain to use it's ability of neuroplasticity to process all the normal brain functions and processes through alternate neural networks causing you to process information in profoundly different ways. This essentially creates new neural pathways for the brain to use. And apparently meditation has very similar effects. After a small meal, satisfied that he had benefited greatly from the events of the night, he went to sleep in the early morning.