Entheogens can be used for mindless recreation unkowingly (the most potentially harmful situation), they can be used as a means of unconscious reprogramming, as a mode of therapy, and they have recently been used in modern medicine, assisting the terminally ill to cope with death. These so called "drugs" are widely used by those who understand them as tools for reaching a divine clarity, healing and enlightenment, a state that does not have religious preference, but is a truly universal kind of communion with your most sacred and divine aspects. This is all situational and depends upon the users conceptual framework. If you give mushrooms to a shaman, a yogi, a quantom physicist, an artist, a spiritual healer, etc. and this is taken in an appropriate setting, a controlled envirnment, then you will see different results and enormous significant breakthrough that shape our collective mind. Entheogens need to be understood and respected for what they are, to which we owe great respect and reverence. When you give these tools to those who are not searching for anything higher, they're not ok with letting go of their egos, then these results are unexpected. Not saying it doesn't all have its place, I mean to quote fight club, you gotta crack some eggs to make an olmet. It all comes down to our awareness of ourselves, to put it simply but honestly, you cannot deny that we are seeing exponential changes towards this planet, and where as before we may have been concerned with cultivating the Earth, developing new technologies, governments and social structures, we are coming to a point where we need to shift our selfish focus from domineering a capitalistc, currency driven system via a means of acquiring and sharing resources - we now must heal the wounds we have caused ourselves and our home. etc. etc. same old story. We do what we can to find out who we are so we can be free, another hope for the future of mankind in a cage of mokeys, and I no longer need psychadelics to trip, but it is definately akin to dynamic aplification of chakras and cellular vibratory levels