[varyouga]

The Bible warns against “drunkeness”, which is numbing the senses and thought. It does not warn against psychiatric drugs which can be used to alter your perception in a positive way rather than numb you. Psychedelics are simply natural psychiatric drugs found in the wild that have been made illegal to study. Entire classes of natural drugs we can't legally touch because some idiots overdosed on them to look at colors. Does that really sound rational?

I do know what you mean about people abusing psychedelics. Most often in a party atmosphere. Of course working in a detox clinic you will only meet people who are destroyed by drugs. If you are doing good, why would you go there?

However, as a former researcher I can attest that intelligent, creative types have successfully used them to further their research. In a controlled manner with a threshold dose. It can give people an entirely new perspective on what they are doing. Several I personally know have received global recognition for work that was seeded by a psychedelic session. Of course reputed researchers will not speak of it publicly because we aren't even technically allowed to touch these things.

[xzins]

Revelation 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

In the above verse the Greek for sorceries is pharmakov, from which we get pharmacy. Sorcery was the use of mind altering drugs for non-medicinal purposes.

This was pretty evident in the campish, late 60's "Tales of Don Juan" a story of a Yaqui Indian sorcerer written by Carlos Castenada.