Food of the Gods

while it had never occurred to Hofmann that his discovery would become a ‘pleasure drug’, he also . . . came to regard the youth culture’s adoption of LSD in the 1960s as an understandable response to the emptiness of what he described as a materialistic, industrialized, and spiritually impoverished society that had lost its connection to nature.

“DMT is found in ayahuasca, whereas the 5-MeO-DMT is naturally found in certain plants and in the venom of the Sonoran Desert toad (also known as the Colorado River toad), which lives in northern Mexico and southern Arizona. Its venom is thought to have been used ceremonially for hundreds, if not thousands, of years by Mexican indigenous cultures t

I think everyone knows it’s possible. There’s a great Osho lecture, titled “The Attraction for Drugs Is Spiritual.” He talks about why do people do drugs (everything from alcohol to psychedelics to cannabis). They’re doing it to control their mental state. They’re doing it to control how they react. Some people drink because it helps them not care