The Spiritual Use of Entheogens

[Ali Quadir]

If the usage of psychoactives turn normal people into saints. Then drug rehab facilities must be filled with holy men?

I've used mushrooms about fourteen times in the period of 3 to 4 years and xtc once, I still smoke cannabis. I was actually initiated for the first time under the influence of mushrooms. And the experience was huge. It was the biggest thing that ever happened to me. I can still say without a doubt that it in no way enhances your spiritual ability. And it does not release you from the confines of everyday reality. You just experience things that you interpret as spiritual because you're a spiritual man. Your fellow tripper who is a less spiritual man goes hunting for gnomes. One of mine did. He's a free man, not a slave... But he's also hunting gnomes.

It's not the psychedelics that made you what you are... You did... You just identified the psychedelics as the cause and not yourself..

My evaluation isn't totally negative though. It's something I recommend every healthy and informed adult to do at least once in life. Just don't fall for the idea that it turns you into some kind of saint. It's medicine and like with every medicine true healing comes from within. Not from the chemicals you ingest. It might give the experience you need to move ahead in your spiritual journey. But dinner at your in laws can do the exact same thing if you let it.