leary admits that there are other ancient methods, like meditation, which can help us to reach higher levels of consciousness, but "at present time, man is so sick, that only a few people can use ancient methods, so that it is safe to say that drugs are the specific, and almost the only, way that the American is ever going to have a religious experience" (PE 297). Leary predicts that "psychedelics are the future of mankind," that psychedelics will be the religion of the twenty first century and that during the next few hundred years the major activity of man will be the scientific exploration of our consciousness
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