So, first of all please forgive my off topic ramblings yesterday, I was preoccupied and I would like to let you know that a second surgery will be upcoming. I am fine…….Now back to it.  Have you seen the film “Altered States”  with William Hurt and Blair Brown?  I actually saw this film under the influence of psilocybin because I knew that the film dealt with the hallucinogen. But I had to be sure that my impressions of the film were not clouded by the drug so I saw it four more times within days of its debut. My attraction to the film, in the first place, came to be because of what I had observed in a friend of mine.  In those days I was reading the Carlos Castaneda books (some of the most influential books of my life) and in them “Mushrooms” were the power and “peyote” the wisdom according to the holy…