Thank you for the welcome!

As you say, integration in the sober state is key, which is why swim partakes only a few times per year.

But it seems incredible and somewhat bizarre that Life offers us heightened awareness when we partake, and then (usually) lowers this awareness when we are sober! How many times during an entheogenic session, when the brain is fully fired up, has swim wondered "Why am I not constantly in this state of utter 'efficiency' and phenomenal consciousness?"

I often wonder why this state of heightened awareness/energy isn't a bit more built into us... Maybe we are slowly building it up? Maybe we were born with it, and it got slowly eroded?

Had a good laugh the other day when a friend asked me very seriously if I knew the ethymology of the word 'sober'.

I made a puzzled face, and he answered: 'boring'!:lol: