Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.

What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.

We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.

Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.