> "Searles O'Dubhain" wrote

>> [....]
>> Conversely, being "birched" is one of the eight-fold-ways that some
>> esoteric practices use to alter states of awareness. The use of drugs
>> is another

>
> - which can be one and the same, provided we'd call birch sap a "drug"
> in the medicinal sense. Quite potent stuff, depending on...