Have you read any Daniel Pinchbeck? (Breaking Open The Head, 2012: The Return of Quetzacoatl) He definitely seems to be in the middle of a consciousness movement among the psychodelic set and there's certainly historical support for this.
I really like his point that we need to have an eye towards merging the magical/mystical and the rational. Mysticism on its own has failed to provide a stable "world order," and rationalism has proven unsustainable. His hope is to discover the merging of the two through psychedelics.
I have a suspicion that when the world does find a more advanced order, there will be places dedicated to the exploration of consciousness through judicious and supervised use of some of various "power plants," at which point we will probably see some advancement in understanding how they can be applied to aid sustained sustained growth in addition to the temporary states they induce.
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