Comment by dec0dedab0de
2 days ago
In the old world the dangerous insights required so many years of discipline that you could sort of trust that the person getting the insight would be ok. But then any idiot can get the insight by just eating some shrooms and oops, that's a problem.
I would think humans have been using psychedelics since before we figured out meditation. Likely even before we were humans.
Ah yes the stoned ape hypothesis. I don't know if there is or will ever be evidence to support the hypothesis.
I also like the drunk monkey hypothesis.