From the Zen tradition: A monk who had meditated long in search of Illumination finally received a great flash of insight. Rushing to his roshi (Zen Master), the monk cried out, “I have it! I have it! That rock there is inside my head.” “You must have a big head,” the Master replied, “to hold a rock that size.”

III. Some regard them as psychedelics (a word coined by Humphrey Osmond, M.D.) or as metaprogramming substances (coined by John Lilly, M.D.); that is, the new state is considered one in which we can reorganize or re-imprint our nervous system for higher functioning.

of his assigned role in the hive-economy. One can train oneself to receive or ignore a far wider variety of signals than the neurologically untrained realize.