>>510810387
Interesting. I wasn't familiar with the word prelest but I get the concept.
I disagree though, I do believe drugs are a path to deeper awareness, but perhaps the evil man returns from his trip to the other world and his own narcissism drives him to act like the prelest definition. Starting a cult and being the cult of personality is just a fun thing for a narcissist to do.
Taking absurdly powerful drugs gives you direct access to something and depending on the person they may derive true wisdom from it or they may not. I think it's possible. Taking on cosmic awareness and shedding your ego are deeply spiritual, life-changing experiences. It's a perspective shift which reframes everything in your whole life instantly. You wake up one day thinking the world is this materium and then you eat a pound of mushrooms and you realize the human filter is hiding so much more. We're practically blind, because the universe is so blindingly awesome, that we can't bear to look upon it's totality.