[reaganaut]

Maybe it was Halloween and he was high on Paoti?

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Actually, there is an academic article (I think Mark Bsnr linked it) that JS was likely using “magic mushrooms” at the time.

[Vendome]

I was kidding....Really? magic mushrooms? LOL

I have seen some pretty strange things when I drink. So this spiritual leader/seer/prophet was comfortable doing drugs?

Too much. ROTFLMAO!!!!

[MarkBsnr]

- - - - - - Actually, there is an academic article (I think Mark Bsnr linked it) that JS was likely using “magic mushrooms” at the time.

That is correct. There were several other posters that had somewhat more indepth articles on the subject as well. From the descriptions of the ecstacy and the mental states achieved, there is some correlation between not only the use of magic mushrooms found in upstate New York and the mental states, but also in the times of year that this ecstacy was achieved which correlated to the times of mushroom growth.