Psychedelics and “technologies of the sacred” can cause numinous states. The religious scholar John Huston Smith spent 10 years trying and failing to find cosmic consciousness through Zen Buddhism, but his first experience of LSD took him ‘step-by-step to those things on which angels themselves long to gaze’. Do psychedelics cause “genuine” spiritual experience or are they “pseudo-spiritual”? Are these states caused by alterations in brain function or do we participate more fully in an aspect of…