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Great article - it would make sense to me that these substances were, as you said 'in-ward facing', not something you hand out to foreign visitors but something you guard as a sacred secret.

I would imagine these societies would also guard many of these practices locally, regionally.

Makes me all the more grateful, thanks.

Laymen here, I was surprised that opium didn't get more than a passing mention. It seems to have made some inroads a 150 or years ago.

I believe because opium isn't a psychedelic.

Opium is psychoactive, but not a psychedelic.

Thank you for making this open to the public, and thank you for your work.

Thanks! Though I have to say, credit for the open access is entirely due to librarians of the UC system. I just had to click a button saying I wanted it to be made available. The work was already done via this 2019 agreement with Cambridge: https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/uc-publisher-relation...

Very interesting and well-written. Thanks.