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# Religious Scholar studies LSD experience and decides "You Can Have Too Much Transcendence" (2023)
- URL: https://psychedelicmentalhealth.net/religious-scholar-studies-lsd-experience-and-decides-you-can-have-too-much-transcendence-2023/
- Published: 2025-09-23T14:05:36.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-23T14:05:36.000Z
- Description: "I had to sit still on my cushion, in my life, and let those memories and the energies that I accessed, in those hours, soak into my physical being."
- Author: Michael DeMarco, PhD
- Tags: psychedelic experience, is the psychedelic experience important, psychedelic integration, transcendence, lsd, bache, consciousness, idealism

[You Can Have Too Much TranscendenceJust ask this religious scholar who took 73 high-dose LSD trips.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/61/a8/61a8484e-df24-47fb-903c-d012ff10c983/content/images/icon/cropped-thicker_smaller_logo.png)NautilusSteve Paulson![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/61/a8/61a8484e-df24-47fb-903c-d012ff10c983/content/images/thumbnail/Hvh4ChlE-Paulson_HERO.png)](https://nautil.us/you-can-have-too-much-transcendence-448748/)

"It took me years to live with an awareness that everything, every being, every plant, is actually a [manifestation of the divine](https://nautil.us/can-tripping-save-the-planet-251456/?%5Fsp=658a62b3-fb84-4251-88a9-b6c20439a3a1.1700609393250), of this unified energy. Yeah, that’s worth working for."