“When my trip started, I closed my eyes, and then all of a sudden everything that had happened before, I had forgotten it all. I forgot that everything existed.

 I started seeing white dots like static. That’s all I saw. I wasn’t really aware that I had a body. I tried to look through the static. When I stopped focusing, it started feeling like a sharp pain.”

Is incense bad for you?

Sitting around a campfire is as core to human behavior as walking on two legs and making abstract connections. Burning incense takes that activity down to a smaller level. There have been a few studies around incense smoke and the impact on human health. Some of these studies could be considered biased (paid for by tobacco companies). The quality of materials can vary, so it’s important to buy incense that lists its ingredients. One insidious type of ingredient continues to creep into the incense market, making expensive resins appear to be cheaper with the use of synthetic fragrances.