mckenzington

During extreme adversity, the brain floods itself with serotonin to a level that can only be replicated through the administration of psychedelics. In fact, the main mechanism of the hallucinogenic and consciousness-altering effects of psychedelics is this same flurry of serotonin. That means that when someone has a near-death experience and claims they went to heaven and met God, you can tell them they're tripping. They won't believe you, of course, and why would they? Jesus didn't die on the cross so you could go around telling everyone that heaven is an LSD-induced dream. Bad for business, at the very least. If I had a near-death experience, I think I'd tell everyone that God somewhat resembles Elton John, and he has a message for all of us: it's lonely out in space. For a person that writes so much about love, I know shit all about it. But what I do know is that love feels a lot like dying without being dead. It's a flashing pain that lights up your wh