“If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen….”

As it is, your petulant reactions to criticism would seem to indicate my scepticism is perfectly valid.

So, what else you got?

At some point, they might do well to remember Alan`s own advice as regards using psychedelics:
“When you`ve got the message, hang up the phone.”

Detective-Inspector (Claims of Enlightenment Division – Drugs Unit) Arpana seems to be on the right lines…

So, time to ‘sing’, Mr Wing:
Are you, or are you not “a stoner”?! (Current odds at Ladbrokes indicate that your extreme virulence under pressure suggests you are indeed just that).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QrBqzcZBCd0

MOD:
POST EDITED (TOO MUCH OBSCENITY).

Even if you try to slide away by saying it’s just a joke, the truth is it suits you to hold such a view, just as it suits you to discount others’ efforts at psycho-spiritual growth.

For the simple reason that believing such tripe relieves you of both any feelings of ‘missing the boat’ (and consequent inferiority), and of any responsibility to actually do something real about your chronic stuckness.

As campaigning about the fate of the Pune ashram is nothing but a psychological red herring, of no intrinsic value to you except to keep yourself occupied under the delusion that you’re doing something important (and that therefore you must also be important).

Ekantam was given a thorough hammering by several contributors – and if the two are one person then no wonder the silly sausage has it in for me….