Mystical traditions offer 'right-handed' contemplative routes and 'left-handed' routes to achieve transcendent experiences.

“There are what are traditionally called right-handed roots and left-handed roots. Right-handed roots are the ones that are kind of deeply embedded in religions that we normally don't see as much because therefore people who are kind of living a contemplative lifestyle. So Christian traditions have them. Buddhist tradition we're more familiar with, etc. And so you can by virtue of engaging in long practices of meditation, building your skill over many years, get your mind to that point where you can have the sense of ego death. Left-handed traditions, they're the quick and easy way, right? So rather than learn the practice, you can take the drug uh and and get there as well.”