the Old Testament story of the serpent, the forbidden fruit, and God’s expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden as “the first psychedelic slapdown.” Pursuing that thought, Roman Catholicism’s persecution of “primitive” Christians and the extirpation of their visionary Communion wine might be described as the second psychedelic slapdown. And then, in the twentieth century, just as we seemed to be freeing ourselves from the loveless iron grip of the Church and opening up to new spiritual possibilities, governments around the world waded in with the so-called “war on drugs”—the third
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