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« Mysterious Island is a metaphor for that elusive, ineffable place glimpsed in dreams, trips, and epiphanies. During the pandemic, I took strong doses of a psychedelic drug for mental wellness and had profound, time-dilating experiences that greatly altered my perspective on life and meaning. The trips were diverse but included encounters with beings I considered ancestral who showed me past or alternate lives in desert plains, jungle tropics, and places beyond this earth.

Communication was visual or spoken, non-language telepathic, or in a form that I can only describe as emotional — often …