Stuff I found in My Documents Ken Wilber on Shamanic States: Explore the phenomenal altered states. Dont get stuck there. Altered states come and go. They are not the everpresent state. It is not realization. And then, this: As I discussed in The End of Faith, I view most psychedelic experiences as potentially misleading. Psychedelics do not guarantee wisdom. They merely guarantee more content. And visionary experiences, considered in their totality, appear to me to be ethically neutral. Therefore, it seems that psychedelic ecstasy must be steered toward our personal and collective well-being by some other principle. As Daniel Pinchbeck pointed out in his highly entertaining book, Breaking Open the Head, the fact that both the Mayans and the Aztecs used psychedelics, while being enthusiastic practitioners of human sacrifice, makes any idealistic link between plant-based shamanism and an enlightened society seem terribly naive. -- Sam Harris The End of Faith Indeed, they can be lots of fun . . .
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