At a certain point, the first time he took LSD Chuck’s friends insisted he walk into Walmart and just see what it was like. It was incredible. He tried to blend in because he knew he was no longer one of them. He was in the pharmacy aisle and picked up a box of bandaids or cough syrup. He tried to convince everyone around him that he sincerely wanted to know these ingredients and not appear suspicious to the other shoppers. That was the difference. Two different states of consciousness. The ordinarily one, where thinking was not questioned, and this altered one where everything previously normal was questioned. It was beyond anything to know a drug could initiate the unlocking of ordinary thought. It says something about believing we are in control of ourselves, no? That thought itself can be dramatically altered whether LSD or Heineken. Are we really in charge of ourselves, like of our capacity to think? It is the same improvising alone or with people. Alone, Chuck could have the altered state experience more easily, he could explore, attempt, recycle and generally follow without judgement but bring an audience into it, whether other improvisors or people viewing/ listening and the chemistry completely alters the earlier example. That doesn’t mean it isn’t fun to try getting there even with other people but noticing the different states of consciousness are just that. When he heard people were critical and polarized sixty years ago when Glenn Gould argued the merits of transcendental achievement made recording and overdubbing vs. performing before a crowd, he thought what’s all the fuss about? Is it not obvious?