Definitely, but academia is the driving force behind (or pinnacle of) secularism. I'm fairly sure that ancients were more "secular" than we are giving them credit for--the first people explored the world without any former prejudices. Sure, their knowledge was more intuitive than factual, but that does not diminish their accomplishments. That's were my use of "way of life" comes in. There were no spiritual practices back in the day--everything served a practical day-to-day purpose (even though, judging from today's perspective, many times in a naive way). Basically, what I'm trying to say is that modern secularism is but a more refined and technologically advanced ancient way of life. But modern secularism in its arrogance tries to get rid of this legacy, because, after all, religions grew up from the same substrate. And just as a side note, pertaining to the entheogens and mind altering substances in general--when I look around, almost everyone is drugged in one way or another.