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The psychedelic renaissance represents a genuine cultural shift, an Archaic Revival in McKenna's sense

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The psychedelic renaissance represents a genuine cultural shift, an Archaic Revival in McKenna's sense

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Evidence for: legal psilocybin services, bipartisan political support, FDA Breakthrough Therapy designations, clinical research renaissance. Evidence against: dominant engagement mode is consumer wellness (branded microdosing, $500 retreats, Silicon Valley productivity optimization). McKenna's Archaic Revival was specifically about cultural reorientation toward plant intelligence and indigenous knowledge, not a new pharmaceutical category. The dominant commercial form is arguably the dominator culture adapting to a new market rather than being transformed by it.

McKenna (1992); MAPS Policy Guidebook (2026); Colorado Sun (2025)