Any Boomer who has done LSD knows that “alternative consciousness” is not all it’s cracked up to be.
My generation, I guess, or close. That stuff was all around me in my mid 20's; I was too much of a country boy to ever get interested. Vietnam messed up huge numbers of youth all around me. Some seemed to survive on maryjane and hashish.
When I worked in NYC I would go to parties; folks drank, let their hair down a bit, got kinda rowdy - it could be fun. Then maryjane arrived. People would smoke, nod off, the party just fizzled. After a while I just stopped going. No 'fun' for me. . . . Vietnam.