An afterword generally covers the story of how the book came into being, or of how the idea for the book was developed.

journey
    title  Writing this book
    section Thought processes
      Make tea: 7: Me, Rabbit
      Computer: 3: Me, Rabbit
    section Review content
      Read my own words: 4: Me
      Invite others to read: 5: Me
  section Publish online
      Server issues: 1: Me, Rabbit
      See Book up online: 7: Me

In part, the moderately excessively long-lasting journeying that brought this book into being, is as all-important as is its content. This must be weasel-worded by reference point to the actual start of the process of writing. Now, this point, might strongly be argued to have come about at the very dawning of time itself. ¹

The above is important because it is a wavy line. The universe is full of both undulation and oscillation.

Gravitational waves are waves in space-time that are caused by some of the most violent and energetic processes in the Universe. Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves in his general theory of relativity, published in 1916. Einstein’s mathematics showed that massive objects moving at speeds approaching the speed of light would disrupt space-time in such a way that ‘waves’ of undulating space-time would propagate in all directions away from the source. These cosmic ripples would travel at the speed of light, carrying information about their origins with them. Furthermore, they would provide clues to the nature of gravity.

The most powerful gravitational waves come from events like black holes colliding, supernovae exploding, and neutron stars colliding. Other waves are predicted to be caused by the rotation of neutron stars that are not perfect spheres, and possibly even the remnants of the Big bang.

This is not a fictional book. Instead, it is a book that, I hope, will at least impart the rudiments of Psilocybin. If you find yourself absolutely lost, confounded, disorientated and disillusioned within the desert of conflicting ideas, relating (to) this subject, you are not alone. Be fearless! If you go into psychosis, return to this book as quickly as possible. Being stranded out in the desert on a horse with no name is a cliché & it is an earworm, a song that will stay in your mind forever. Take refuge in this book.

As stated elsewhere the purpose of this book is to briefly engage the reader in such a manner so as to alleviate the awful psychic pressures that otherwise might do great harm to the individual concerned. The warning here, is that unlike many other books, this book assumes that:

1. The reader will never have time to finish the book. ²
2. The reader will be mentally elsewhere, most likely waiting for a series of mind-grilling interviews³, an awful medical examination.
3. Or perhaps simply waiting for the worst possible corporate mind-washing-presentation ever. ⁴
4. For the above reasons, the text of this book (elsewhere, deep within the core content) is necessarily non-terse and the pictures are both visually stunning and massive.
5. I hope that by at least flipping ⁵ through the pages of this book, the reader may increase their lifespan. lessen the torture that is the current environment and at least reduce the actual caffeine content in the bloodstream.
6. This is done by saying “No, thanks”, when offered a third cup of coffee, after having seen many other candidates for the job interview, walk out with a shining smile seemingly surgically implanted into their faces. ⁶
7. The reader who is on a bus, train or other transport mechanism, may also arrive safely at his/ her/ its/ destination; this would, at least in part, be due to the calming nature of this book.

When I started writing this book, I freely admit that I had no idea what I was writing; even to the extent that there was no idea of a title nor what content would result from my effort. Yet, after some time, the fluidity of writing exponentially grew until the words were falling onto the screen in a torrent.

I learned that this Afterword, would come to be the single most verbose and utterly useless part of this book. By comparison, the brief yet pertinent comments authored and published on the actual subject, within the actual content on the subject of Psilocybin are but a drop in the ocean of Spacetime.

As with all my endeavors, finishing this book and getting it published in a well bound, ⁷ high-quality hardback finish was only one of the stumbling blocks.⁸ I am known for starting many projects and not finishing almost any of them. This is a curse, a hex, a piece of unfair fabric of this universe!

Please note that at the time of writing, any hardback of paperback version of this book is but a piece of legal fiction.

In a way⁹, as the author, I can frankly say that writing this book, really changed me. It provided me with firmness of purpose and feedback. We all need success of one sort or another. We seek this, to see ourselves in what we have done.

Without this feedback of cognitive content, it is as though one may never have seen oneself. Imagine, if you will, a time and place where a mirror is not ever available. Under these circumstances you will never see your face. How would you recognize yourself? Indeed, this is highly problematic and is only the tip of the iceberg.

This reflection of ourselves belongs within the field of introspective psychology, among other esoteric fringe-psychology and otherworldly existential realities.

Writing this book took an inordinate amount of time. Literally, this means that there are no ordinal numbers with which to describe time. However, I did resonate with the core tor! ¹⁰

Any suggestions about how to read this book are unnecessary, since you will almost certainly never finish it and may even open it halfway through. If there is a special way to do this, the quantum mechanics relating to the formula needed to express this is beyond the scope of this preface.

NOTE: The days of quality free higher education vanished decades ago. (YankSide never genuinely had the privilege of quality University education) Presently, it is honestly¹¹ more cost-effective, not to take any course at a quality university. Rather, if you want to learn, only make use of the libraries and gatecrash lectures at these establishments.

On most days of the week, you will find that enrolled students do not inconvenience themselves by actually attending either the libraries or lectures as they are far to busy recovering from the party the night before. So, you may find the lecturer only too proud to accept you, even if you are exceedingly unclear about your enrollment status etc.

The manifest clear-cut benefit of non-enrolment these days, is that the whole student loan syndrome has become intimately tied to the need to lend which itself is an inerrable failure of the Bretton-Woods-Agreement. This results in a state where the fully-fledged student arrives out of the machine-like processing & industrial plant of the modern University with a debt that weighs as much as a house.

As an alternative, if you are the guardian of the prospective degree winner, and have real estate in your name, get remortgaged up to the sky or beyond, and then factor-in the indenture and life-long wage-slavery that this entails.

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