A Shaman's Potion

If this happened years ago, I wouldn't have been able to write a story about this great learning experience, featured in my latest book WHAT MY BRAIN TOLD ME. And now here's a selection from the retelling of that experience...

An excerpt from "The First Time I Got High" included in WHAT MY BRAIN TOLD ME by Thom Kudla:

"Silence. Absolute silence. The walls moved in on me and pushed my friends' faces together. I wasn't afraid. Nothing about it was unnatural or scary. In fact, if anything, it was the most natural and comforting thing I've ever seen and experienced, other than lying down in bed with a woman, of course. Back to the high. It was like my body and their bodies were there, but I could only see our spirits and our spirits were together as one. This is probably how it all began and how it all will end. All as one. Without the true vision of existence obstructed by deluded perception, by reality. This was really real. And like that -- our spirits returned to our bodies.

Then we all just laughed uncontrollably. Hysteric laughter. None of us questioned what was funny, because probably nothing was funny. Or maybe everything was funny, and that's what made it funny. This is probably how it all began and how it all will end. With laughter. Uncontrollable. Hysterical. Nonsensical. Laughter."