NARRATIVE of WARD COURIER/CONFERENCE with TED BENNETT and EVAN DAVIS, Continued
October, 2009
SOUTH WALES and BUFFALO, NY
"Plus, the Native societies in South America had huge, ancient drug cults. The drugs seemed more a part of their ceremonies than in most other parts of the world. The drugs were not just to get you high; they were to you closer to whatever you perceived as your gods or your ancestral spirits. I threw it into the story that the drug was way more than just something that would get you high."
"Did you believe in the existence of this substance when you heard about it?" asked Bennett.
"I thought something new was probably out there," I said, "but I thought it would be just a rework of something old. Some hallucinogen, some upper or downer. That's all. That stuff about
