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Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.
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The Cosmic Game - Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness (1997), ISBN 0-7914-3876-7, p. 260

 

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