…waiting for me from John, who is a fellow saloner from New Zealand. And he sent a link to an article about how Frank Herbert, the author of Dune, had been influenced by psilocybin mushrooms. It was a really interesting article, and so I posted it in my…

…Paul Herbert, the other Herbert, the Herbert who wrote Dean, who is such a minor figure that I can't remember his first name. Frank Herbert. He has a wonderful thing in there, talking about fear. And he says, fear comes like a wind out of the desert…

…miracle. I don't want to do the miracle. I don't want the miracle to be done to me. I just want to be there. Frank Herbert, in his book, Dune, said something which over the years I found, though it sounds flimsy to say it actually works. Some of you…

…on petrification, if nothing else. So, you know, I like to quote the guy who wrote Dune. Herbert. What's his first name? Frank Herbert. Who? There's a drug in Dune, you may recall, called the water of life, or strewn, that allows you to navigate through…