The kinds of big often spiritual experiences people have on psychedelics could be difficult for our highly instrumental capitalist culture to absorb; such experiences are threatening to many people. This might explain why so much work is being done to develop non-psychedelic psychedelic compounds—drugs that offer the benefits without the “experience.” This strikes me as mis-guided—the experience may well be the “drug” not the compound, but we’ll have to see....
The kinds of big often spiritual experiences people have on psychedelics could be difficult for our highly instrumental capitalist culture to absorb; such experiences are threatening to many people. This might explain why so much work is being done to develop non-psychedelic psychedelic compounds—drugs that offer the benefits without the “experience.” This strikes me as mis-guided—the experience may well be the “drug” not the compound, but we’ll have to see....