It's amazing how easily children can accept even the most different of people as friends....
As we get older our differences become more important, more intruding, and more pervasive (is that a word?).
How old are you?
My story:
I'm rooming with an old bud, one of my only friends that does psychodelics, and one of the 3 that I have actually done psychodelics with, and he has been there actually every time I've done mushrooms.
He is the most annoying, self-centered, eccentric idiot I hang out with. Every sentence becomes about him and his likes and dislikes. Every idea is centered around himself. He doesn't let you finish a sentence and doesn't let you complete 2 sentences without turning it around to himself. I don't know how to confront this behavior - as he just gets very mad and seems to retaliate, mimicing my arguement but onto me.
He gets very angry if I don't agree with him, and if other people are around, tries to get them against me... Sorry this all happened last night so it is fresh on my mind.
It took me about two years to realize my friend is actually not very intelligent, but just really interested and curious about the rabbit hole. He takes everything McKenna and Pinchbeck say to be completely holy.
Here is an example:
My initial intention was to say this:
"Yeah I've been talking to a few people about pinchbeck - they really think he may be a bit over the top, wacko, too - I don't think all his nuts are in the right place. He takes his personal trips and blankets them over everybody else, as if they are correct for everyone, which is wrong."
This is how far I got:
"Yeah I've been talking to a fe people about pinchbeck - they-"
"Yeah dude! He's fucking, like, oh man, when I read some of his stuff, its so REAL ya know? Its. blah blah blah blah blah fuck fuck fuck fuck shit shit ."
"I was going to say they don't agree with him."
"Yeah he's hard to understand."