Psychedelics are very frequently successful in giving the individual a vivid sensation of the mutual interdependence of his own behavior and the behavior of his environment, so that the two seem to become one—the behavior of a unified field.
Tthe individual is not a skin-encapsulated ego but an organism-environment field. The organism itself is a point at which the field is “focused,” so that each individual is a unique expression of the behavior of the whole field, which is ultimately the universe itself.
The way the individual is described in these sciences is not as a freely moving entity within an environment, but as a process of behavior which is the environment also.
Suppose, then, it becomes possible for us to have a new sense of the individual, that we all become conscious of ourselves as organism-environment fields, vividly aware of the fact that when we move, it is not simply my self moving inside my skin, exercising energy upon my limbs, but also that in some marvelous way the physical continuum in which I move is also moving me. The very fact that I am here in this room at all is because you are here. It was a common concurrence, a whole concatenation of circumstances which go together, each reciprocally related to all. Would such an awareness be significant? Would it add to our knowledge? Would it change anything, make any difference? Seriously, I think it would; because it makes an enormous difference whether what had seemed to be partial and disintegrated fits into a larger integrated pattern.