I hope that you have or will visit again to see that your comments survived the censor! (or did they? I don’t work here, so I have no way of knowing if anything was cut, but the jist seems pretty coherent).

In any case, I am responding to your assertion that “what you see when on drugs has no correspondence to anything”. How do you know that?

It has already been well recorded that human perceptions are subject to change when one is intoxicated. Some drugs retard neurological functioning, others promote it, and still others bend perception in ways ineffable to the sober. While some may maintain that drugs are but a shortcut to profound states of mind that are achievable without chemical interference (through meditation or hypnosis, for example), the fact remains that a man off his face on LSD has access to mental processes that most will never imagine. So, while I admit that the choosing of the date on which to base the timewave theory seems arbitrary to most, who is to say that McKenna was not, in fact, in touch with “God”?!

Scepticism is generally laudable, in my opinion, but your reaction to the psychedelic connection cited here seems dogmatically dismissive. Your brief rejection comes off like “Drugs? huh? Drugs are a mug’s game! This can’t be right!”

Sorry to be so judgmental and “new age”, I’m sure your comments were just an abreaction induced by a balance of memes that your brain is not used to dealing with.

Way to stifle free speech.

It says he arbitrarily picked the bombing of Hiroshima as a date to use whatever math he implemented, but I wonder what would happen if he used something else (probably NOT the same, unless he fudges more numbers).

Also, his credibility is pretty shot, seeing as he gets his ideas from the influence of drugs. I’m sorry to any new age thinkers out there, but what you see when on drugs has no correspondence to anything. Its just a hallucination induced by a balance of chemicals that the brain is not used to dealing with.