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With all due respect, CP ... I have a wide variety of experience with all sorts of altered states, and have talked with tons of similarly experienced people about the topic.
As €uro correctly pointed out, sleep deprivation is likely the most hallucinative state. But it's hardly the most creative one. There are many altered states which produce bizarre effects ... but I don't necessarily want to see the movies created under them.
I guess the title "holy mountain" and the lauded sponsorship of John Lennon led to expect more of an eastern bent to the film, which instead was too obsessed with christianity for my tastes. And yeah, the "brand" of surrealism was not psychedelic ... and I was not being facetious when I said it all became clear to me when I learned the director got his inspiration by depriving himself of sleep. That is a hallucinatory, but primarily nastyass state of being.
Not that everything fits into tight little boxes of surrealism. As I also said, I was very surprised to learn that the members of Pink Floyd got high exclusively on alcohol ... and yet consistently produced psychedelic works of music.
In any case, holy mountain was just too scattered, random, ugly and infantile for my personal tastes. I'm sorry I didn't like it. There's plenty of surreal art and movies I do enjoy ... but this wasn't one of them.
Ick.
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