We're told that perhaps a million Americans, most of them young people, have made the shiva experience part of their lives. Is this a social menace and a cause for alarm?
I don't think so. I see nothing less than the speedy evolution of a new, indigenous religion.
The shiva religionist knows; that the temple of worship is the human body, that the shrine must be located, not in a public place, but in the privacy of your own home, and that the congregation cannot extend beyond your family and your closest friends...
For psychedelics are stimulators of ideas and feelings, but generally these ideas and feelings would express themselves constructively rather than violently or destructively.
If it were possible during a riot to spray small doses of shiva from a helicopter into the air... People would soon quieten... But the question is, is this trip really necessary?
