Correct, Chan. However i am all for helping people understand the facts, to they can differentiate the two. Getting the basics sorted should be the fist premise, should it not?

This isn't about elitism in the slightest. The facts are available for those who can be bothered to do some research.If the facts are available, then shouldn't we be pointing people towards them, rather than encouraging confusion and misunderstandings? After all isn't that the point of the WIKI?

Also, people would be far wiser to read books written by people like Steven Beyer, Alan Shoemaker, Peter Gorman, etc, than Terence Mckenna; who's take on Amazonian Curandismo was comparitively amateur and filled with his own brand of philosophy and intrigue.

I have ammended my above post to show how the subject could be analysed in greater detail for those wanting to achieve greater factual knowledge, in the hope this could help them make better and more positive arguments.

To learn; share; expand, we must try to make the effort to gather the basic facts first. It's easy enough if it's available on the forum. Perhaps a WIKI for the purpose i discussed would help. After all this subject is cropping up, it's probably about time to face the daunting job of explaining it (in the simplest easy to access ways). :d