As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.
Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.
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Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.
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