This model holds that archaic peoples have deputized special people to probe hidden information fields using psychedelic drugs, and that the information extracted from these information fields is then used to guide and direct the society
Reminds me of the part in The Dawn of Everything where they talk about eccentrics
The British enzymologist J. B. S. Haldane, in the 1920s, in an essay, said, “The universe may not only be stranger than we suppose, it may be stranger than we can suppose.” And I suggest to you that, as we look back over human history, every pinnacle of civilization—whether it be Mayan or Greco-Roman or Song dynasty—has believed that it was in poss... See more
What I think a psychedelic society—what that notion means or implies to me in terms of ideology—is the idea of creating a society which always lives in the light of the mystery of being. In other words, that solutions should be displaced from the central role that they have had in social organization, and mysteries—irreducible mysteries—should be p... See more