heroic dose

heroic dose
 n.— «At what Terence McKenna calls a “heroic dose’ (I love that phrase!) the focus is all outward, and the ego, that thin shell of self-delusion, is no more, and at this point the greater truths start rolling in like a bunch of insane bikers with PhD’s.» —“Re: LSD and some relatives” by Rob Robertson Usenet: alt.drugs Aug. 25, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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