What's Wrong With This Picture (Or Report)?

Critics say that the effect produced by magic mushrooms isn't a true spiritual experience. (CBC)

In a recently published study, more than 60 per cent of research subjects who were given capsules of psilocybin derived from mushrooms described the experience as mystical and profound. But critics of the study say the manufactured spiritual feeling from magic mushrooms should not be confused with a true spiritual experience. "All this did was stimulate that part of the human personality that produced certain feeling states and altered states of consciousness," said theologian Dave Reed, a professor at the University of Toronto. "Those are no criteria for an authentic encounter with God."

I'm not sure the good professor knows exactly which philosophic Pandora's Box he may have opened up here. Years ago I heard the argument forwarded by some anthropologists that ingesting hallucinogens was precisely what convinced our pre-historic ancestors that they had in fact experienced "an authentic encounter with God" (or gods, if you prefer).

And what's this story doing in the Science section anyhow?
[REALLY ridiculous.]