The Trivialization of Entheogens: A Strategy to Suppress Truth

There’s been much made of entheogens’ potential to treat anxiety, depression, PTSD, and addiction. While these therapeutic outcomes are real, reducing these sacraments to tools for symptom management fundamentally misrepresents what they are—and what they do.

Entheogens are not merely medicines. They are revealers. Used in the proper context, they initiate profound journeys of remembrance and confrontation, uncovering truths buried beneath trauma, denial, and cultural programming. This process can be disorienting, even terrifying. But for those seeking truth, it is liberation.

And therein lies the threat.

Memory, Revelation, and the Threat to Power

Trauma caused by abuse—especially in childhood—is unique in that it often leads to repressed memory. Or worse: full recollection without the recognition that abuse occurred, due to gaslighting and cultural normalization. Entheogenic experiences frequently bring these hidden truths to the surface. Dots are connected. Patterns are revealed. In many cases, perpetrators are exposed.

The implications aren’t only personal. On a broader scale, entire systems and institutions are exposed through these experiences. Religious, medical, and political structures built on control, suppression, and deceit are laid bare.

In every true entheogenic session, someone or something gets exposed.

And then the real question emerges: What do we do with that truth?

The Campaign of Substitution

Those in positions of power cannot easily suppress entheogens outright. Doing so reveals too much about their own fear. Instead, a more insidious strategy is used: trivialization and substitution.

By reducing entheogens to mental health interventions, and emphasizing narrowly defined outcomes like smoking cessation or mood regulation, the sacred is made sterile. This sanitized framing allows for the introduction of substitutes—synthetics like ketamine and MDMA—which, while potentially therapeutic, do not typically lead to the same radical confrontations with truth, ancestry, or spiritual warfare.

These substitutes become tools of containment. The experience is kept “safe,” therapeutic, and—most importantly—non-revolutionary.

It allows the manipulator to appear benevolent while suppressing the very forces that would undo them.

The Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

Entheogens have long been feared by the Abrahamic religions. The prohibition against the “fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” is not merely metaphorical—it is a declaration of war against direct knowledge, spiritual sovereignty, and the unfiltered confrontation with good and evil as forces embedded in this world.

Evil is not an abstraction. It operates in this realm, and the exposure of evil—especially when it’s hidden in the guise of righteousness—is the deepest threat entheogens pose.

Medicalization is not neutral. It is a tool of control, designed to regulate the sacred and repress its most dangerous revelation: that we have been lied to—systematically, spiritually, generationally.

This Is Not About Symptoms. This Is About Liberation.

The trivialization of entheogens is not just a misunderstanding. It is a strategy—a way to domesticate truth, to keep the soul asleep, and to neuter the revolutionary potential of direct spiritual experience.

True entheogenic healing is not just about relieving suffering. It is about remembering who you are, what has been done, and what must now be done in response. It demands courage, responsibility, and spiritual maturity.

If you’re seeking only relief, you may find it in a clinic.

But if you’re seeking truth, prepare to remember everything.