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Hello everyone, I am new to the site and Magick in general but I have a kind of extensive question I would like to ask. I didn't know where to post it so I figured here would be best. First of all I am curious as to what the views are for consuming intoxicating substances is among the general community? Well my question begins here: I am of Hispanic descent and for a time had interest in Aztec and other Mezzo-American cultures. One of the things that especially intrigued me was their use of entheogens plants. Most of them are well known in their intoxicating effects. They used various things for divination and enlightment including Morning Glory seeds, Psilocybe mushrooms, sinicuichi, datura, peyote, Salvia divinorum and the one that I am asking about Calea Zacatechichi. This plant Calea is also known as the Mexican Dream Herb because of the effects it creates. I prepare the dried herb in a tea an hour before I go to sleep and during my sleep with it in my system I have vivid and sometimes lucid dreams. Now sometimes it has occurred that I have a dream and later in waking life I have deja vu moments or certain things felt as if they have happened before like a memory of my past and it collides with my life also into what seem to be coincidence or maybe it is a form of divination. Also when I take it I sleep with a Lapis Lazuli necklace to open my psychic awareness. So does being under the influence of this plant take away from my ability to dream and see the future or can it help? Is it possible to see the future in dreams? Is it the plant teaching me or is it myself tapping into something I didn't know before?