And I want to end up my thoughts by replying to what >>7315 says here:

>I remember being fascinated yet creeped out by drug trips since I was a young teen; would look up bad trips on some website devoted to the study of drugs that would allow users to self report.
>My morality and my fear would never let me take such substances through I'll admit being drug free I've had my fair share of odd experiences and sensations. Most powerful though was a religious experience I had out in a field, but that's too long a story for now.

now,this raises an interesting point that I should bring up. We are talking about an era where drugs were new and became quite rampant back in the 60s and the psychedelia genre and the way of living of those consumers and artists happened to deal with those trips.

Nonetheless, just because music induces to deal with those blurry imaginative trips, it doesn´t imply that both the artists and listeners contribute to those sense because of said substances. The soundscapes arise because of talent and as psychedelia has continued to grow as a genre, the artists can create said musical landscape that boost the connection and a fantastical environment that other genres don´t get to wrap up all that much the listener. This boosts the sense of beauty, getting drowned and completely connected with his music.

I could imply that Radiarc´s recurrent themes written recently in his latest releases might connect him in feelings in some way but unless that you know him in private or publicly states his life in his social media/interviews, he could be delivering the impression of a character and not necessarily his persona. We can´t exactly tell if he has been writing those paragraphs with a personal and/or artistic standpoint until there is enough evidence. We cannot clear up this fine line where the listener is left with an open interpretation, much more wide open considering that all that we´ve got are instrumentals with orchestral arrangements (Neo-psychedelia)

Yet I see people trying to replicate similar sounds or even styles that envelop the listener even further (shoegaze/dream pop, space rock,chillwave...) and I don´t think that they listen to it for getting an acid trip neither said composers have to live an acid trip for creating these landscapes. Neo-psychedelia, I will admit, is quite expensive to produce so I would understand why someone would stress out quite a bit because of the budget (although technology and these platforms have made it easier and cheaper to make, hence Radiarc might have been able to deliver all of this for a decade)

So yeah, I wanted to reinforce the point that certain correlations that settled the norm in the past doesn´t necessarily have to do anything that the people involved in it need drugs for consuming/creating a musical trip that resembles said experience (even if the original roots of this genre were spawned because of it)