You seem to be claiming that without somebody giving you suggestions, people would not think of psychedelic trips as something special.
Well, as the discoverer of the substance, Hoffman surely did not have any preconceptions, since the first time he was exposed to LSD it was an accident, and had no idea of it’s psychedelic properties.
His account is freely available online here: https://www.hallucinogens.org/hofmann/child1.htm
A quote where he describes the second exposure, which was intentional experiment: “This self-experiment showed that LSD-25 behaved as a psychoactive substance with extraordinary properties and potency. There was to my knowledge no other known substance that evoked such profound psychic effects in such extremely low doses, that caused such dramatic changes in human consciousness and our experience of the inner and outer world.”
Thank you for this blog post. It has been immensely useful to me lately.
I have started new habits and this time they actually seem to stick! Key: never skip twice. Very useful framing. It’s like a super power really.