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If psychedelic plants have been revered in multiple traditions as sacraments,

because of the altered states they induce, what about those people who accessed similar insights

but without taking any kind of psychedelic sacrament?

You see, there's an assumption about this question that is central to new age culture.

It goes like this,

plant medicines give us a glimpse of what the saints and sages,

the great mystics have awakened fully into experiencing as an ever-present reality all the time.

Boomer generation American popularizer of Eastern spirituality, Ram Das,

would tell the tale of giving his guru, name Karole Baba,

at his request, heroic doses of LSD,

which appeared to do nothing to him.

So deeply expanded was the guru's mind already,

that being on three tabs of acid was basically normal.

Now, I've hunched there are probably more plausible explanations for what happened there,

but we don't really know.

Nonetheless, in Ram Das's conception,

...