Pubdate: Sun, 20 May 2001 Source: Parade Magazine (US) Copyright: 2001 Parade Publications Contact: http://www.parade.com/email/index.html Website: http://www.parade.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/336 Section: ASK MARILYN Note: Headline provided by newshawk DRUGS CONTRACT BRAIN FUNCTIONS Q: What is your opinion about the use(not mis-use) of drugs for mind expansion? A: This is not an opinion: it's a fact. Those drugs produce mind contraction, not expansion. That is, when you're doing drugs, you may feel better--which misleads the user--but you think worse. And thinking(not feeling) is everything when it comes to seeing the world in new ways. Otherwise, you're like a fly on the wall: Eyewitness to everything but a perceiver of nothing. - --- MAP posted-by: Andrew