Are Drugs One of the Most Important Rites of Passage a Human Being Can Experience?
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Particularly psychedelics, and especially if you have interest in philosophy or spirituality. This is not to say that everyone should take psychedelics, as I will make clear below. These drugs do pose certain dangers. I now meditate and haven’t taken any drugs in years. But reflecting back, would you be the same person you are today without the however many hours of your life that were spent under their influence? Is there a more indispensable tool of insight?
I know it is too cheap to hope that through chemicals you can attain something ultimate. But I think they have helped me a lot in discovering the deeper possibilities of our existence. Just the mere existence of psychedelics established for me the material basis of mental and spiritual life beyond any doubt. When they throw open the gates of consciousness and give you a glimpse, that glimpse can become a breakthrough. And the beautiful thing about psychedelics is how they uproot you from your past convictions and can send you on a search for what’s beyond our limited waking consciousness.
Niamh: Thanks for your answer. Everyone but you seems to miss the part where I said I don’t use psychedelics nor advocate using them as a path to get anywhere. In fact, I only tried it once out of curiosity in my early teenage years. The key word I used was “glimpse” and that’s what the experience is all about and that’s where the transforming power lies.
It’s like having a dream where you encounter the ultimate. The dream may not be reality, but nonetheless it can motivate you to search further into the ultimate in your waking hours.
Niamh: Thanks for your answer. Everyone but you seems to miss the part where I said I don’t use psychedelics nor advocate using them as a path to get anywhere. In fact, I only tried it once out of curiosity in my early teenage years. The key word I used was “glimpse” and that’s what the experience is all about and that’s where the transforming power lies.
It’s like having a dream where you encounter the ultimate. The dream may not be reality, but nonetheless it can motivate you to search further into the ultimate in your waking hours.
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Answer by Arbuckle
Hell no:
1) My children’s births
2) my first trip to a foreign country
3) Backpacking remote regions
4) watching my babies grow
There is no drug that can outdo any of those experiences. Those are lifelong memories, things that I will never forget and are as clear as day.
Doing a drug is a temporary feeling and you are just as likely to forget it in a week as you are the dump you took yesterday, especially if you end up with an addiction. The concept that drugs are this awesome rite of passage that is the best feeling ever is a sad misunderstanding of what we as people are actually capable.
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