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My opinion, and please take it as nothing more than an opinion is that there were sophisticated uses of the numerous hallucinogenic species of flora(and fauna if you include the bufo toad)native to what is now Mexico. In CC's first book, which I have the inclination to believe is his most authentic goes along with what years of ethnography and archaeology have asserted on that subject. These indigenous psychic abilities are something we cannot understand without the technology, much as if we were trying to explain a jet engine to a medieval peasant in Europe (they would probably have labeled it witchcraft too). I happen to believe that it was through the systematic use of powerful hallucinogens that they contacted very real entities (allies or other inorganic beings? the spirit of Man? uayob?) that communicated explicitly what is still one of the worlds most accurate calendars. There is no other explanation with the possible exception of the practice of head binding/skull shaping how any people of that age, anywhere in the world could calculate time in way that is still very difficult to conceptualize. In fact it flies in the face of the assertions that these substances should be schedule 1 since there have been obvious uses historically that were included in pharmacopias and religious rites. This is relevant to of course the subject as a whole, salvia in particular was never mentioned to my recollection in any of CC's books and remains unscheduled in the US, but there is no doubt it was and is used in some parts of Mexico, particularily Oaxaca. If I'm not mistaken that was where the "western" world came across hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms as well, also which were discussed in the teachings of Don Juan. Speaking of the assemblage point, hallucinogens and whatnot, has anybody heard of psilocybin being the only treatment developed so far to treat OCD? The treatment group was small, but it makes sense.