Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.

Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.

The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.

Culture is another dimension.

We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.

The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.