"Biocentrism: How life creates the universe" -
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31393080/ns/technology_and_science-science//Awesome, awesome read. Although, I've gotta say, almost everyone who experiences a psychedelic trip aspires to a biocentric view of the universe shortly thereafter. The article talks about how a lot of scientists are appalled by the idea, and have been since the advent of quantum physics. For some reason the concept becomes much easier to accept when you see the entire universe shatter and reconstitute before your eyes.
I once heard someone who I could only describe as a counter-culture evangelist spouting about how he discovered the secret of the universe during a particularly intense LSD trip. He had no education in science of any kind whatsoever, but what he was describing is pretty much word for word what the article says. That was a long time ago, and back then I wrote him off as a lunatic that tripped one too many times. Not anymore though. Some types of knowledge is better acquired from journeying to the depths of the mind, than by carefully constructed experiments in a laboratory.
