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Patrick Lundborg, in Psychedelia – An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way of Life, argued for a Unified Psychedelic Theory (UPT) drawn from the ancients, Platonism, and the modern phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Exploring the history of the psychedelics that spans 3,5000 years, Lindborg believes that a UPT recaptures a philosophy of life that has existed for centuries because without psychedelics the exploration of the deeper realms of “inner space” would have been more difficult. The Lundborg trip model outlines the stages and thematic contents of a typical psychedelic journey and how the effects of DMT, ayahuasca, and psilocybin are based on the latest theories of neurophenomenology and evolutionary research which can be linked to ancient genetic matter of cosmic origin, known as panspermia.