In my opinion, the users of these entheogenic intelligent plants are receiving messages from the plants that the earth is in trouble, and we don't have much time to correct man's contributions to the destruction of it, we need to collectively act fast to change the course of what is happening--if we don't start to change our ways. Ocean acidification, the elimination of countless species, wildlife extinction, pollution, global warming, carbon emissions, destruction of the rainforest, etc. We are different from other communities in that we are active in protecting this Earth, global political activism, this is what Daniel Pinchbeck has been writing about for years, I can name dozens of new books on entheogens that open with the chapter or statments "the earth is in trouble". We are the community that is awake to what is happening, the more I take entheogens, the more pressing I sense this. The Mystic Chemist Albert Hofmann even wrote about this in many of his books decades ago...Nature is forefront, if we loose our ties to nature and the earth, we could go extinct like the dinosaurs. All of nature and the animals and man is inter-related, we are not seperate--instead of seeing us as "dominate" over nature--we should see ourselves as protectors of nature--if we all took these plants, we would all wake up to what is happening--not just our community, what does the future hold? only time will tell.
Daniel Pinchbeck:
The statistics are overwhelming and the evidence now irrefutable that we are facing an unavoidable ecological, sociological mega-crisis the likes of which the world has never seen if we continue on the current trajectory of carbon emissions and waste production we’ve been on. Scientists say we are now in the midst of the sixth mass extinction on the planet, the worst since the dinosaurs. According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and others, the current estimate for the earth’s temperature rise by 2100 is 3-5 degrees Celsius, which would threaten and irrevocably damage plant, animal and human ecosystems; bring about extreme weather events and pandemics; cause coastal flooding and inland droughts; and probably, ultimately wipe out a large portion of the human population.
....as far as materialism: most people in our culture reject the use of psychedelics and consider non-ordinary states and other psychic phenomena to be either nonexistent or meaningless. The impulse to preserve the materialist worldview and its system of values tends to reinforce a willful ignorance towards anything that threatens the underpinnings of a culture obsessed with acquiring wealth, goods, and status.
Daniel Pinchbeck, Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism:
Natural plants are now looked at as "suspicious" while the pharmaceutical industry is the only one allowed to spew thousands of man-made drugs our way, to numb us, millions of people take anti-depressants, what is deemed legal comes only from the ones in control--the pharmaceutical industry. Dozens of entheogenic sites on the web suddenly are not allowed to use paypal or their credit card processors revoked because they carry one or more non-allowed natural plants....the hundreds of lawyers in control call the shots, natural plants "no" but man-made pharmaceuticals "yes" they say. Ebay alone has hundreds of lawyers and they call the shots, same with paypal, and now the credit card processors have joined the man-in-control bandwagen...and the new stupid law in the UK--all natural God-made plant remedies uslesss--only caffeine, alcohol, and pharmaceuticals....it's not a good direction.
