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page 179 - After a number of false starts and dark nights of my soul I realized that an enormous quantity of drugs might prove beneficial. Not for me. The quantities of drugs I consumed on a regular basis meant that I had long experienced diminishing returns of all types when upping dosages.

But what if I gave drugs to a machine?

Terence McKenna, and others I’m sure, suggested that the human consumption of magic mushrooms was an inciting factor in the creation of language, arts and religion; in short, all of human culture. I wanted to see if something similar could result in a non-human setting, so one night before removing this oscilloscope from its electrophysiological apparatus I introduced an enormous dosage of DRUG X to the system.