(I read somewhere that angels start appearing the in Old Testament as proxies for god because the priest class didn't want their flock thinking they had a chance to talk to god. They had a business to run and their business had no use for someone coming in with a vision that would change the groundrules. Large religions don't need anyone to have visions, don't want anyone to have visions or to talk with god. He then goes on to theorize why such drugs (mushrooms, ergot, peyote, etc.) were driven out of corporate religions.
"There was no essential difference between ecstasy achieved by plant hallucinogens and that obtained by other archaic techniques." (like fasting and sleeplessness) (We well know that many Christian saints got visions by fasting, which produces hallucinations.) Here's a quote: Basically, the writer posits, with much historical support, that religious experiences from the past were assisted by drug-induced hallucinations. But the book turns out to have an interesting thesis. At first this may seem to be a facile, free-the-weed-motivated ennobling of drug use.
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