Psychedelic Experience Manual - readwise.io  ## Metadata - Author: **readwise.io** - Full Title: Psychedelic Experience Manual - Category: #articles - URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/223642103 ## Highlights - The nature of the experience depends almost entirely on set and setting. Set denotes the preparation of the individual, including his personality structure and his mood at the time. Setting is physical — the weather, the room’s atmosphere; social — feelings of persons present towards one another; and cultural — prevailing views as to what is real. It is for this reason that manuals or guide-books are necessary. Their purpose is to enable a person to understand the new realities of the expanded consciousness, to serve as road maps for new interior territories which modem science has made accessible ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j9jfaby0twkec1ds672w1ejx))