Are drug enhanced 'mystical' experiences as valid or long-lasting as 'enlightenment' gained through meditation or other more conventional forms of spirituality?
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katespana
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I don't think that drug enhanced experiences are as valid as those gained through normal or natural forms of meditation. I think that drug obtained benefits are temporary in nature.
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No they're not. They're little better than mental and emotional masturbation on the whole. Enlightenment is not an altered state.
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Drugs and genuine spirituality (not a buz) are never in harmony. Whatever experience could manifest through and from drugs has nothing to do with true spirituality. Let us not confound spirituality with drug educed hallucination or delusion. In fact, in the process of attaining spirituality--however you're trying to accomplish this--it is very important to keep drug, alcohol, tabbaco and any other vice out of your body. LOVE Y'ALL! PEACE!
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Some drugs could help you under certain circumstances to open the doors to various spiritual experiences. But also, many drugs won't do that and rather just ruin you. And those you can procure you a mystical experience should just be taken as what they are, a mean to show you that there is something on the other side. Beware that you could also encounter things on the other side that you will not be able to manage. For this reason, it is better to learn through meditation, with a good teacher if possible, to explore those worlds inside yourself. And after you get some exercise, you will be able to open some doors that only you can open.
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alchohol, tabacco, cafiene and our sugar produced today are considered hard drugs. especially for the proven bad effect on body and brain. Natural psychedelics however (mushrooms, mescaline(natural form!) ayahuasca) have no proven bad sides. They do reduce stress do... so I do not know what is more holy, hence I do not believe in holy. I only believe in consious decisionmaking and I know that spacing out of you´re brain from time to time really reduces stress for a longer time and that after the trip you can think and reason more clearly.
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