Is there a drug around for just about everything?
Certainly not since new drugs are being tested all the time. Also, I'd be hard pressed to find drugs that mimic the qualities of many of our herbs, or for example, a drug that helped with yang deficiency. More importantly, it's kind of like a downward spiral in which if one takes a drug for something, it will cause another issue, then they need to take another drug for that and pretty soon the body is just being destroyed. How about a drug for living life in balance, that takes only one pill and suddenly satori is attained? Rather than keeping my fingers crossed, I'd prefer to do the work of getting there myself.
Can we raise our levels of dopamine ourselves?
I suppose that depends on how we interpret the word, "ourselves". It would be worth doing an experiment in which a person with no training whatsoever sat there envisioning raising their dopamine level, and then test to see if it actually worked. Or, it could mean if we take something that raises dopamine levels, such as L-dopa, we were the ones that took it, so we raised it ourselves. Another option is studying with a zen priest to do so, and then doing it. But is that really doing it "ourselves" since it took outside influences? Finally, there's always the matter of one's lifestyle causing the body to not function correctly, effecting dopamine levels, and thus if we live our lives aligned with the Tao, an argument could be made that that was raising levels of dopamine ourselves.
How do you think chimps and humans diverged as species?
According to darwinism, post-darwinism, etc., the explanation seems to be that it was a result of proceedingly greater genetic differentiation over time that eventually resulted in the inability for the two species to reproduce with each other. That could be it.
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