How Magic Mushrooms Taught Me the Value of Personal Autonomy

A lightly fictionalized anecdote

photo by Matthew J. Dolezal

Many years ago, in the midst of an art college gauntlet, I ended up having a modest, yet memorable mushroom trip. Back in those days, we did wild, artsy, experimental things, like taking illegal drugs with ex-girlfriends. Natalie had just broken up with me a few months earlier, which, incidentally, caused me…