Yeah, I misread your post actually. Sometimes on discussion boards people will quote someone and then change their words around just to be sarcastic. I thought that's what you were doing, now I see that wasn't the case at all.

Anyway, I'm not surprised the person you spoke of never found his "enlightenment" through mass consumption of peyote. That's simply not how it's done. There's a reason drugs of this sort are only legal for shamanic purposes. It's the same reason you don't hand out firearms to children (OK, that may be a bit of an exaggeration but you get my point: if you're a layman, you're playing with fire).

In all of these posts about people trying to find their own individual spiritual .. aspirations .. and innevitably failing, I'm not surprised by a single one. These things don't happen over night and they cannot be treated with whimsical abandonment. It's like saying "I'm going to become a muscle-bound athlete" and then giving up 2 weeks later when you haven't made any visible progress yet. These things take perserverence, dedication and, most importantly, steadfast belief.