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Spiritual Assistance from Hallucinogenic Drugs or Does Their Use Threaten Nontraditional Cultures?

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touch with the spiritual world which exists all around them, even to heighten ones self awareness about past lives and reincarnation. Today such use is often attributed to the  New Age culture. In reality, however, mankind has recognized for hundreds if not thousands of years that drugs can have a variety of effects on human physiology, both in  terms of physical effects and in terms of mental effects. Well before the "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" era of the 1960s there was some interest in the  use of hallucinogenic drugs as a tool for revealing ones subconscious and bringing one into contact with their spiritual guides for the purposes of heightening ones self awareness about past  lives and reincarnation. This movement has waned and escalated over the years since the 1960s but it has never died out completely. Far too many people in non-traditional  cultures see hallucinogenic drugs as some magic key that will allow them to have experiences which are attributed to so-perceived "noble savages". The intent of this paper is to  present the contention that in the absence of the traditional culture which spawned the traditional use of hallucinogenic drugs, these drugs are useless in allowing any type of spiritual connection,  useless in allowing a non-traditional person to connect with their spiritual guide and useless in heightening self awareness about past lives and reincarnation.  While the height of the popularity of hallucinogenic drugs was reached during the 1960s, the interest in using hallucinogenic drugs to lessen the difference between the physical and spiritual worlds  would never entirely disappear during and in the years following the 1960s. Synthetic drugs such as LSD and various derivatives of cocaine and many others joined the world of