As The Practical Value Of Altering Consciousness

I Was Raised With The Idea That If You're Not Smart Enough To Do Science You Can Do Politics.

Science Is A Kind Of Glorified Tailoring Enterprise, A Method For Taking Measurements That Describe Something ? Reality ? That May Not Be Understood At All.

No Man Is So Good As To Be Free From All Evil, Nor So Bad As To Be Worth Nothing.

Grant Knew That People Could Not Imagine Geological Time. Human Life Was Lived On Another Scale Of Time Entirely. An Apple Turned Brown In A Few Minutes. Silverware Turned Black In A Few Days. A Compost Heap Decayed In A Season. A Child Grew Up In A Decade. None Of These Everyday Human Experiences Prepared People To Be Able To Imagine The Meaning Of Eighty Million Years - The Length Of Time That Had Passed Since This Little Animal Had Died.

As The Practical Value Of Altering Consciousness Becomes Recognized, Procedures To Effect These Alterations Will Become Increasingly Ordinary And Unremarkable. The Whole Concept Of Changing States Of Consciousness Will Cease To Have A Threatening Or Exotic Aspect.