This word is
entheogen, a substance that allows the deity to reside within the human.
DMT or Ayahuasca has been described as an '
entheogen,' meaning 'spiritually enhancing agent.' But it is also 'hallucinogenic' or 'inducing hallucinations.'
Hallucinogenic drugs and
entheogen are not limited to LSD (acid), NBOMe (nbomb), and dimethyltryptamine (DMT) [30].
(1) Recent archaeological discoveries confirm that it has been used since the Neolithic period (4000BC) (2, 3) as a medicine, cultivated crop for fibre, food and also as an
entheogen (i.e.
'
Entheogen', a neologism which means literally to generate or engender the divine within, refers to any of these substances, natural or synthetic, and indeed others, such as cannabis, coca leaves, and even tobacco, but only when they are employed in the service of healing, enlightenment, initiation, social bonding, and similar intentional uses.
LSD is used mainly as an
entheogen, recreational drug, and as an agent in psychedelic therapy.
Tobacco had long been in use as an
entheogen in the Americas, but upon the arrival of Europeans in North America, it quickly became popularized as a trade item and a recreational drug.
The purpose of the experiment was to test the drug's reliability as an
entheogen (a psychoactive chemical.)
Your desk dictionary, if it's not very new, probably doesn't have an entry for
entheogen, but Wikipedia.org can tell you that the term, which dates from 1979, "was coined as a replacement for the terms 'hallucinogen' ...
Thousands of supporters have signed up to support the campaign run by the
Entheogen Defence Fund.
I believe peyote to be an "
entheogen" -- a "god-manifesting" or "god-containing" plant.