Drugs can change the chemical balance of the brain, and induce altered states, not dissimilar to dreams, visions, meditation etc, and have a long history of religious practice.

I'm not sold on the shared cosmic consciousness, but there is some interest in the concepts of morphogenetics and morphogenetic fields that are interesting, but not conclusive (although not easily dismissed either).

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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You're not as funny as you think you are.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

Not sure I fully understand it.

There are certainly strange examples of inspiration from visions,for example,
Srinivasa Ramanujan(an Indian mathematician)credits his mathematical findings to the Goddess of Namagiri. According to Ramanujan, she appeared in his visions, proposing him mathematical formulae which Ramanujan would then have to verify. One such event was described by him as follows:
"While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing."

All his formulas have subsequently been shown to be valid.

David Ike.

'Brave New World'? Portrayal of a Socialist paradise surely - "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

Non conformist w***ers.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02