BullNBear52 -- anyone's entitled to try to credibly explain, or at least put into a credible context, what so many call 'religious experience' as if that explains everything (or anything) and puts the matter beyond scrutiny -- the experiential aspects of the use of such substances do fit quite well -- and the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam did all originate from that same magic-flora-rich region
Descartes, on the other hand -- any guy who has to struggle to decide if the table he sees and feels and is resting his arms on is real or not, who freaks out and launches into endless mind-numbing inanity over simply being aware that he is self-conscious and thinks, who even has some difficulty nailing down that he himself is real -- he could just as well (and as meaningfully) have said 'I shit therefore I am' -- http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=25446998 [. . .]