Psychedelic drugs are only barely interesting compared to the forms of thought and learning that are innately accessible to us when we are immersed in contexts that support our fundamentally transentient nature as animals and humans. What is available within us is shockingly more profound than anything that can be delivered by drugs. The problem is that we do not know how to enter or trigger these capacities, and thus, believing ourselves bereft of them, we learn to use poisons to trigger experiences that can most accurately be described as the ghosts of our own inherent ‘liquid prodigy’. Unfortunately this merely puts further distance between us and these faculties, and trains us to seek these replacements instead of activating and exploring our natural endowments.