It's all life. The psychedelic drugs allow exploration of this interior world, and insights into its nature. There is an ecology of information. Macroscopic information decays to microscopic information. But microscopic information is eventually concentrated.
Nothing is lost.
Gods exist to devour information. The lower intelligences sort, filter, concentrate and organize information. And the gods feed. And then, I think, he must have used some kind of a ray or a mind control device. You take a particular combination of chemicals to create a particular response in your brain and nervous system .