What psychedelics and entheogens really help us do–beyond healing the anxiety and traumas of modern life–is to go into the egoless state and merge with a sense of unity consciousness outside linear time and inside eternity–and that whole experience of cosmic consciousness. The psychedelic explosion of the mid-to-late 20th century culminated in the psychedelic revolution of the ‘60s, which was just the latest modern wave of consciousness expansion. The difference between indigenous use and the modern psychedelic revolution is not just the scale of the phenomenon, it's also the intention. Are psychedelics medical tools, spiritual catalysts, or both?
