...it all isn't in fact the way you thought it was...if you had some kind of structure or support system, you say, "Even though everybody else thinks I'm mad, I'm not!" It's like when I was being thrown out of Harvard. There was a press conference and all the reporters and photographers were interviewing me because I was the first professor to be fired from Harvard in a very long time. They all were looking at me as the fighter who had just lost the big fight. Here I was a good boy who had built his career and finally reached Harvard and now was obviously going to disappear into ignominy. They had that look on their faces you have when you're around a loser. And here I was every few days taking acid with my partner, Timothy, and my friends were going into these realms beyond realms beyond realms, and I was looking at the reporters and photographers as "those poor fellows." And I looked around and saw that everybody believed in only one reality to this situation except me, and I remembered, since I'm a clinical psychologist, that that was a definition of insanity!...

(Vincent's view from the assylum)

- Ram Dass, excerpt from "Grist for the Mill," 1976 Ram Dass and Stephen Levine