Why We Get High Bruce Eisner Almost all of you have gotten “high.” You might call it “getting stoned” or “tripping” or “having a session” or “going on vision quest” or “partying” but the urge to switch channels and move to another and less usual state of consciousness is as old as our species itself. Actually the quest for intoxication is even older! Ronald Siegel, in his book, Intoxication, documents numerous animal species and most of the various human cultures that strive to get high or as he calls it, to intoxicate themselves. Siegel proposes that after food, drink and Read more »