Luke Caverns

Yeah. Well, it might explain why Teotihuacan civilization and all their iconography is so terrifying. Like if you look up the great goddess of Teotihuacan, it's these guys with handbags picking this detour and like putting them in their handbags. Oh, boy. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Well, it might explain why Teotihuacan civilization and all their iconography is so terrifying. Like if you look up the great goddess of Teotihuacan, it's these guys with handbags picking this detour and like putting them in their handbags. Oh, boy. Yeah, yeah.

And so their whole civilization is like very dark and scary. But I asked this archaeologist. I said, OK, have you ever gone out and studied the stars from the Native American point of view while you're smoking cannabis or you take peyote? And he's like, oh, no, I wouldn't do that. And I'm like –

And so their whole civilization is like very dark and scary. But I asked this archaeologist. I said, OK, have you ever gone out and studied the stars from the Native American point of view while you're smoking cannabis or you take peyote? And he's like, oh, no, I wouldn't do that. And I'm like –

And so their whole civilization is like very dark and scary. But I asked this archaeologist. I said, OK, have you ever gone out and studied the stars from the Native American point of view while you're smoking cannabis or you take peyote? And he's like, oh, no, I wouldn't do that. And I'm like –

You have committed your entire life to studying this ancient culture that you know very well was studying the stars and taking hallucinogens. And you, as someone who's supposed to be an expert in this field, you don't want to put yourself in the shoes of these people. I was like, dude, if you laid out at night...

You have committed your entire life to studying this ancient culture that you know very well was studying the stars and taking hallucinogens. And you, as someone who's supposed to be an expert in this field, you don't want to put yourself in the shoes of these people. I was like, dude, if you laid out at night...

You have committed your entire life to studying this ancient culture that you know very well was studying the stars and taking hallucinogens. And you, as someone who's supposed to be an expert in this field, you don't want to put yourself in the shoes of these people. I was like, dude, if you laid out at night...

With everything you know about the Pueblo ancestral people and you smoked weed for the first time or you did peyote or something. You stayed up and looked at the stars. You might have an epiphany about something that you've never realized because your brain is just operating in a different way than it normally does. And he was very slow to like – to be open to this idea.

With everything you know about the Pueblo ancestral people and you smoked weed for the first time or you did peyote or something. You stayed up and looked at the stars. You might have an epiphany about something that you've never realized because your brain is just operating in a different way than it normally does. And he was very slow to like – to be open to this idea.

With everything you know about the Pueblo ancestral people and you smoked weed for the first time or you did peyote or something. You stayed up and looked at the stars. You might have an epiphany about something that you've never realized because your brain is just operating in a different way than it normally does. And he was very slow to like – to be open to this idea.

And, you know, the Zahi thing kind of reminded me of this is like, you know, he has preconceived ideas about his world and his personal beliefs that interact with the archaeology, you know? And so it's really hard for us to, Study the ancient world from a completely unbiased point of view because you have so many preconceived ideas about your modern world that influence your archaeology.

And, you know, the Zahi thing kind of reminded me of this is like, you know, he has preconceived ideas about his world and his personal beliefs that interact with the archaeology, you know? And so it's really hard for us to, Study the ancient world from a completely unbiased point of view because you have so many preconceived ideas about your modern world that influence your archaeology.

And, you know, the Zahi thing kind of reminded me of this is like, you know, he has preconceived ideas about his world and his personal beliefs that interact with the archaeology, you know? And so it's really hard for us to, Study the ancient world from a completely unbiased point of view because you have so many preconceived ideas about your modern world that influence your archaeology.

And that's why the widely – that's why there's no widely accepted – or it's not widely accepted among archaeologists – that Native Americans were heavily influenced by hallucinogens.

And that's why the widely – that's why there's no widely accepted – or it's not widely accepted among archaeologists – that Native Americans were heavily influenced by hallucinogens.

And that's why the widely – that's why there's no widely accepted – or it's not widely accepted among archaeologists – that Native Americans were heavily influenced by hallucinogens.

I really think it's because so many of these people are older archaeologists that have a knee-jerk reaction to drugs of any kind, and they couldn't possibly fathom the reality that the culture they spent their life studying are all doing hallucinogens all the time. Unquestionably.

I really think it's because so many of these people are older archaeologists that have a knee-jerk reaction to drugs of any kind, and they couldn't possibly fathom the reality that the culture they spent their life studying are all doing hallucinogens all the time. Unquestionably.

I really think it's because so many of these people are older archaeologists that have a knee-jerk reaction to drugs of any kind, and they couldn't possibly fathom the reality that the culture they spent their life studying are all doing hallucinogens all the time. Unquestionably.