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"Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies ... despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudo traditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level. "
- Paul Shepard, Nature and Madness, 1982
There is a story that when the Dalai Lama was asked if you could use drugs to attain enlightenment, he said, "I sure hope so". And when Zen Master Seung Sahn was asked what he thought about using drugs to help in the quest for self-knowledge he said: "Yes, there are special medicines which, if taken with the proper attitude, can facilitate self-realization". Then he added: "But if you have the proper attitude, you can take anything - take a walk, or a bath.
