To transform the work-a-day into what existence signified on the morning of life’s innocence is perhaps the ultimate accomplishment in life, for life’s greatest offering is life itself, i.e., experience—hence, the more acute our experience, the more real existence will become. During the hallucinogenic intoxication, such intensified perception is generally encountered, for which reason primitive peoples have prized the experience as a periodic process of renewal, restoring in turn the significance of ordinary life. [...] By making the external world synonymous with the world of primal vision, life can be helped to achieve its primordial fulfillment. No other solution will satisfy the emotional need of man, nor answer the endless questions about the “meaning” of ultimate reality. [...] The ultimate meaning of existence is to be found in the glorified forms of our experience, elevated to the religious through sharpened emotional focus.

-Eugene Seaich, The Far-off Land: An Attempt at a Philosophical Evaluation of the Hallucinogenic Drug Experience