There is a long tradition in the Western Buddhist community of very well-known teachers using psychedelic substances. Roshijon Halifax has written, wrote essentially a book about her going to various indigenous communities and being involved in different ceremonies that involve the consumption of substances. And so what I have heard people from the Buddhist tradition say around this stuff is that like sometimes you can consume a substance that can give you a level of insight into what might be possible.

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