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quote of the month brought to you by Citizen Banned...................................... WHEN we consider the origin of the mythologies and cults related to drug plants, we should surely ask ourselves which, after all, was more likely to happen first: the spontaneously generated idea of an afterlife in which the disembodied soul, liberated from the restrictions of time and space, experiences eternal bliss, or the accidental discovery of hallucinogenic plants that give a sense of euphoria, dislocate the center of consciousness, and distort time and space, making them balloon outward in greatly expanded vistas? we have to remember that the drug plants were there, waiting to give men a new idea based on a new experience. the experience might have had, i should think, an almost explosive effect on the largely dormant minds of men, causing them to think of things they had never thought of before. this, if you like, is devine revelation... from "The God in The Flowerpot" by Mary Barnard.