But there’s something particularly potent about psychedelics as a bridge or linkage between science and spirituality or materialism and mysticism. And that potency derives from the fact that, whatever else they are or whatever else they do, psychedelics are material molecules that we metabolize in a physical way that we can understand, at least on some levels, in strictly scientific terms. Psychedelics therefore play a key role in the constantly fought boundary war between the disenchanted model of the world that is the dominant scientific view and these spiritual counter-narratives that begin
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