Question SHOULD we... or will we not evolve....

Access to entheogens is remarkably easy to come by. You can order everything you need online. From Ayahuasca kits to mushroom sub-straights and cacti. If one were truly seeking an experience they could find it. Salvia can be purchased over the counter and almost any smokeshop or you can go down to the local botanical nursery and purchase a salvia plant or coleus or morning glory... Or if your chemistry is better than your gardening you can extract DMT out of grass.

What one of the 7 habits of successful people? They hang out with other successful people. Okay so if you want to have an experience then hang out with people who have experiences...

There are other methods by which you reach altered states which may be more accessible to the common man. Not everybody is going to go out and learn pranayama, but anyone with the means can likely find an establishment which specializes in floatation/sensory deprivation tanks.
http://www.evolver.net/group/technoshamanism/discussion/sensory_deprivat...

I think I recall Terrence putting it best when he said, "I think you CAN make progress spiritually with psychedelics, but not necessarily.....Aldous Huxley said of psychedelics that they are neither necessary nor sufficient for the attaining of salvation. He called them 'gratuitous graces', meaning you're sure glad you have them, but they're neither necessary nor sufficient." --Terence McKenna

I may also contend that if one is self-obsessed with any exterior device with an expectation of salvation. The substance will simply deny access. When I look back at how these substances have come about. From the shamans experience these medicines were cultivated from the earth and fleshed out of the natural world. But in the western society we take in nothing whole. We dissect and devour little bits and pieces of the whole.

In the sixties anyone could get mushrooms if they really wanted them. But I imagine it to a bit of a hassle to go out and find these things. Some things never change. Then look at how LSD is packaged. Almost specifically tailored for the piecemeal consumerist mercantilism of the west.

As a teenager growing up I always smoked pot and even dared to eat few mushrooms. But to have someone hand you 3 or 4 small squares of paper telling you, "yeah that's it" for the first time. Even at the time I was taken back by this not knowing nearly what I do now about everything else in general.

Now all these years later the tide is returning. Not only is more known about these substances but more can be known by a great many more people. We hear about people going to South America and returning with magnificent Ayahuasca tales, but not everyone can just run off to South America and even if you do there's no guarantees unless you can somehow arrange it ahead of time. This sort of experience is hindered by finances and planning. Of course you could order online but even if you do, how do you know if you've done it right without the shaman?

Enter the modern day alchemist of western civilization bringing forth to the species caught in the wave of consumerist values, nnDMT. Enter the 900 lb gorilla in the world of psychedelics and where does a 900 lb gorilla sit? Anywhere it wants. That is to say it doesn't take any shit from the likes of you. However, this gorilla doesn't like to stay long. There are no barriers for him to come into the room and none for him to leave.

Look at how this thing is packaged and tell me it's not been tailored for the west. It comes in a crystalline powder form. The dose is smoked, procedurally this is at least similar to smoking cannabis. If you're an avid pot smoker you'll figure out how to smoke DMT with little to no oversight. Liberating, it takes less than 15 minutes for it to totally clear so you don't have to plan your day around the event. The event can actually be emergent and chaotic. Which to me is another message it has for us since our lives are so very structured. This lesson is taught before the smoking part of the experience ever takes place and it's not realized until after. Dogma and routine are to put up false expectations of the next present moment.

Should we drive forth to the future staring only into the rear-view mirror?

So now some may say, "Well i can't see around it, the mirror is all I have to go by", "What other models of the future are there if not built on the past?" and to that I say, "don't ask me! DMT!"

"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth..."