'
'Is it a kind of magic, then?' He was fascinated and intrigued
that the tiger had experienced this elevated state, and wanted him to
feel it, too.
'I guess you could call it that. But one very dangerous to the
young, or to anyone who doesn't know what they're doing.'
'Have you ever eaten them?'
'No. I've smoked marijuana, which is safer..... But Kalus, these
can't possibly be peyote.'
'Why not?'
'Because if the tiger had eaten them he'd have gone crazy: he
wouldn't have understood. He wouldn't have been able to think it
through.'
'And maybe for that same reason he wasn't afraid. You still
don't see it, do you? An animal's mind isn't less than ours,
only different. He lives in his world as clearly, and understands it as
well, as you and I. He is not a half-wakened child.'
'Well, assuming all that's true, and that this is peyote. Do you
think you're ready for it? Because I promise you, it would take your
mind to places it's never been. It could be very frightening.....
Now you're scaring me.'
Indeed, he had all but stopped listening, gazing instead with fixed
intensity upon the mystical substance before him.
'I want to try, Sylviana, if only for the pains it cost me to bring
it here.' He looked at her intently. 'Where Avatar leads, I want
to follow if I can.
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