What I have been reporting so far has been my subjective reaction to my yage experience. I am not so naive as to believe that these experiences aren't on occasion absolutely miserable. My experience was so positive because of the unusually good setting. In addition, we were left alone and knew it. I believe that one of the main reasons the psychedelics are dangerous stems from the fact that they can be used only surreptitiously at the present time. Generally what happens when things go underground is that they become perverted. The psychedelic experience shared by increasing numbers of people may mean that we're now on the verge of an appreciative revolution. At the present time, there are few places on this continent where it's possible to participate in exciting, cosmopolitan "modern living." In a profound sense, the psychedelics may alter this situation, by virtue of their amazing ability to tune up the senses and realign value systems. When you couple the psychedelics with today's technology, affluence, and the cultural revolution occurring now at the popular level, it is easy to understand why we are seeing utopian experimentation throughout the country. The psychedelics are boosting the natural desire for such experimentation precisely when that growth can easily find a supportive environment. They tend to redress the imbalance of our perceptions, emphasizing similarities rather than differences. Psychedelics and technology promise a proliferation of utopian thinking across the land that hasn't been seen since at least the middle of the last century.