source of new interest and fascination. New thoughts replaced old ideas in a continuing process of new formulation. All of these things feel like they emerge spontaneously, making ideas about being born again and personal renewal concrete. We remember that Timothy Leary and his wife in their privately circulated pamphlet, Neurologic, described their entheogenic drug-induced escape from the habitual order as supported by the learned and established “...mental-manipulative and socio-sexual brain circuits...,” an escape to a fresh new planet of possibilities. Louis Lewin, the early Twentieth Century German pioneering ethnopharmacologist described his subjective responses to peyote as a flood of lively, numerous, random fantastic creations of perception and thought, all demanding his fresh attention. To complement these subjective reports, experimental tasks involving habituation, such as the disappearance of a brain wave sign of arousal to sound or light stimulation, called alpha blocking, the eyes-closed resting pattern of 8-14 cycles per second, hz, waves perturbed into the arousal pattern of >20 hz, did not habituate when the subjects were pretreated with entheogenic drugs. This finding was also true for the results of years of meditative practice. In his 1974 Psychophysiology of Zen, Hirai reported that Soto Zen monks, after many years of practice in mindful, one pointed, be here now meditation, unlike normal controls, continued to show alpha blocking surprise, brain wave arousal patterns, throughout the course of repeated stimulation with auditory clicks. James Austin in his monumental book, Zen and the Brain (2000) summarizes other studies of habituation in TM practitioners and other mediators in which eyes open versus eyes closed, the set and setting and variations in other experimental variables blurred these results to some degree. He develops the case that years of meditation-induced brain states of emptiness, we would say of maximal entropy and minimal for