Sardy, thanks for that article link from reality sandwhich. Brilliant article....summarizes my sentiments regarding this visionary element in Tolkien's work...which is the very essence of his work. And that is the reason I am so drawn to Tolkien's work...it's beyond his work, it's what his work so eloquently and compellingly points to: illumination.
Psychedelics are not the point...they are the tools. Tolkien didn't use them, but that is irrelevant. It is the visionary experience that is the point.
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