All Politicians Should Be Required To Drink

The Use Of Language Around Drugs Is Really Important. So We Find That It's Increasingly Difficult In Our Society To Find The Word "drug" Not Connected To The Word "abuse." The Notion Of A Responsible Use Of Drugs Is Written Out In The Language Of Our Culture.

Our Society Values Alert, Problem-solving Consciousness, And It Devalues All Other States Of Consciousness. Any Kind Of Consciousness That Is Not Related To The Production Or Consumption Of Material Goods Is Stigmatized In Our Society Today. Of Course We Accept Drunkenness. We Allow People Some Brief Respite From The Material Grind. A Society That Subscribes To That Model Is A Society That Is Going To Condemn The States Of Consciousness That Have Nothing To Do With The Alert Problem-solving Mentality.

If This Is How Science Operates, By Silencing Those Who Express Opposing Views Rather Than By Debating With Them, Then Science Is Dead And We Are In A New Era Of The Inquisition.

There Can Be No More Intimate And Elemental Part Of The Individual Than His Or Her Own Consciousness. At The Deepest Level, Our Consciousness Is What We Are - To The Extent That If We Are Not Sovereign Over Our Own Consciousness Then We Cannot In Any Meaningful Sense Be Sovereign Over Anything Else Either.

There Are All Kinds Of Ways To Challenge Ourselves. Some People Do It By Climbing A Mountain Or Scuba Diving. The Most Profound And Challenging Ordeals Is To Drink Ayahuasca. It Is In A Way The Ultimate Adventure.