Well, you zeroed right in on Cary Grant, didn't you?

To answer Tom Hamilton's question, my comments were not meant to demean Mr. Coburn in any way. I brought it up because Coburn's penchant for inner-space exploration earned him a special status among many of the counter-culture followers of the sixties and seventies. Not quite on the same level as Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Ram Dass, or Carlos Casteneda but not far below. He was a member of the "straight Hollywood establishment" who broke out of the mould and became a bit of a counter-culture icon to many.

Personally, I have never lumped psychedelics with the rest of the drugs out there. I have never seen anything wrong with using psychedelics in a spiritual or ceremonial fashion which is, as I understand it, the manner in which Coburn used them. Being addicted to heroin is one thing, but using LSD or peyote as a tool for spiritual growth is another. It may ultimately be misguided, but it certainly carries no stigma in my book.

Bruce