“It would take hundreds of pages to sketch Dave Bixby’s life course, his religious quests, his spiritual retreats and his professional wandering. To put it simply: things got out of hand very early on for him, because he had the misfortune of encountering LSD in 1968, at just 20 years old. ‘This drug took me where no man had gone, and I never got back. I should have stuck to beer and weed. Too many acid trips, not enough time between each, I found myself in pieces and unable to communicate with anyone.'”