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Key concepts
What the book means by its central terms — definitions in Seaich’s sense first, then the 2026 annotation note.
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Mescaline
The phenethylamine alkaloid of the peyote cactus — the substance of Seaich’s first and sixth sessions, and of Huxley’s Doors of Perception.
LSD
Lysergic acid diethylamide — the substance of seven of the nine sessions, investigated philosophically rather than clinically.
Set and setting
Mindset and environment — the variables Seaich attends to across his sessions, before the phrase became standard.
Phenomenology
The philosophical method of the book: describing experience as it presents itself, before explaining it away.