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The human drive to alter consciousness is as fundamental as hunger or sex

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The human drive to alter consciousness is as fundamental as hunger or sex

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Andrew Weil made this argument in The Natural Mind (1972); McKenna reinforced it. Evidence: virtually every human culture across history has used consciousness-altering substances; children spontaneously spin to induce dizziness; religious practices universally seek altered states. No neuroscientific study has established a specific 'altered consciousness drive' analogous to hunger's homeostatic mechanism. The cross-cultural universality is well-documented; the specific neurological mechanism is not established.