On the other hand the dead but immortal No.1 LSD Dealer and life long consciousness pioneer Timothy Leary did switch to teachings similar to those of Kurzweil for example in is book "CHAOS & Cyber Culture" written in '94. So maybe you need to get past acid to understand that Kurzweil is a lot closer to the source of consciousness than any drug will ever get you.
"Cryonics is the second-stupidest thing I ever heard of. Being eaten by worms is the first-stupidest." --Timothy Leary. He gave up cryonics before he died, though, and was cremated.
LSD solves everyone's individual problems but it's definitely not the carrier of some ultimate truth. LSD can bring some buddhism into someone's life and it can free from buddhism some other person.
I remember way back in the day being on psychedelic mushrooms once, walking through the woods, and talking to Buddha, who had appeared in a rock wall in a tunnel I walked past. Then I was like "I just saw Buddha, I should say hi and talk to him." I turned back said "hi" and he was like "Dont be a Buddhist, figure it out for yourself." So I know exactly what you mean.
Leary was a clown. A holy fool (maybe). But a clown none the less. He did lasting damage to our ability to unlock the potential in psychedelics with his antics, and his more extravagant ideas cloud what we can actually learn from psychedelics. Fuck Tim Leary.
