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Tallis in Wonderland

Pharmaco-Metaphysics?

Raymond Tallis argues against acidic assertions, and doubts DMT discoveries.

I ought to begin with a confession. I have had no first-hand – or first-head – experience of psychedelic drugs. Admittedly, I occasionally (actually, frequently) ‘do’ a bit of (actually, quite a lot of) my favourite white wine. Courtesy of Pinot Grigio, I am sometimes translated to a parallel universe in which my jokes are funny and the laughter they trigger is directed at the tale rather than the teller. But this is hardly comparable to the experiences of ‘psychonauts’ who take hallucinogenic drugs such as psilocybin in pursuit of revelations about the true nature of the world, of our place in it, and of our eventual destination.

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