Efforts to understand and employ phantastica for the betterment of our society should proceed with an interdisciplinary approach. The disciplines of psychology, anthropology, philosophy and theology must not be excluded merely because we conceive of these compounds as drugs and of drugs as the exclusive province of physicians. We also must not overlook the quickly vanishing aboriginal peoples of the world (particularly the new world). These peoples have significant practical knowledge and experience concerning the use of sacred plants for the benefit of their societies. One can only sincerely hope that our science and culture is able to forsake its hubris and ethnocentricity for long enough to understand and assimilate this knowledge before it vanishes from the face of the earth along with the peoples that developed it.