As for drugs, surely they can only be a pale shadow compared to the inescapable immediacy of a real experience ?
“When I was a man, my father told me something about that vision. Of course he did not know all of it; but he said that Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirit of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world.”