Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
Milla Jovovich introduced me to [anthropologist and author of the Don Juan series of books involving shamanic peyote rituals] Carlos Castaneda because I was all into the hallucinogens for a minute.
I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.
I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.
In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.
Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)
The most powerful hallucinogen in this planet is called Love. Highly Addictive! You will see and hear things that don't exist!