“It would be best not to impose a model too soon, because the model that exists in the west for these states is pathological, and the model that exists in the primitive cultures is mystical and religious.”

— Ram Dass , book Be Here Now

(quoting Timothy Leary's description of the Psilocybin experience).
Be Here Now (1971)

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