Amjad Masad

Because that's also the most unknown.

I mean, the experience is so baffling that people come back and...

The human language really lacks any phrases, any words that sufficiently describe the experience.

So you're left with this very stale, flat experience.

one-dimensional way of describing something that is incredibly complex.

So it always feels, even the descriptions, even the great ones like Terrence McKenna and Alan Watts, their descriptions fall very short of the actual experience.

Nothing about it makes you go, yes, that's it, he nailed it.

It's always like, kinda, yeah, kinda, that's it.

Do you still do it?

Not much.

You know, it's super illegal, unfortunately.

That's a real problem.

It's a real problem, I think, with our world.

The Western world is that we have thrown this blanket phrase.

You know, we talk about language being insufficient.

The word drugs is a terrible word to describe everything that affects your consciousness or affects your body or affects performance.

You have performance-enhancing drugs like steroids, and then you have amphetamines, and then you have opiates, and you have highly addictive things.

You have coffee.

You have nicotine.

Nicotine.