I was well into my 30s before I could even tolerate the Boss. Now I can’t go to see him without being moved to tears and made to feel overwhelmingly aliveA man I know,a friend of a friend, has fallen in love with ayahuasca, and the hallucinogen used in tribal ceremonies in South America. Every so often he heads off to the rainforest,where he joins a retreat and purges his soul. He returns to London, and explains that he feels as though his self, and his emotions,have been taken apart and reconfigured – as whether he has become someone new. Every two or three years I bag the same sensation, normally after standing in some enormous open space among a enormous crowd of people. That feeling doesnt emerge immediately; but in the days following a Bruce Springsteen indicate with the E Street Band, and I feel fragile,naked. I feel as though I’ve been through some particularly intense and epic therapy session, as though parts of my psyche I was not conscious of have been prodded into life. I feel like someone new. Related: Forty years on, or why the Boss was born to run and run Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com