The mechanism in his brain that filtered awe and wonder from the everyday was broken. Every little thing was utterly mind-blowing, often to the point of completely forgetting what it was he was supposed to be looking at. The Functional Schizophrenic - universal output received incomprehensible & wondrous, the world of appearances leaving him wide-eyed, slack-jawed and dumb. A double-edged sword, a natural consequence of years of regular drug use (psychedelic & otherwise), retraining & rewiring his mind to accept all things as ineffably beautiful, innately holy - a beatific sometimes terrifying whole - irreversibly on a road of lifelong unlearning; a mental retreat back toward childhood, back when the world was young and new and dangerously free - the infinite arc of history unspooling before you…