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Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
. It's believed by some that Neanderthal man was the first one to be exposed to these chemicals but nothing conclusive has ever been presented.
Originally posted by TheB1ueSoldier
Forgive me, for I've never used illegal drugs. But, aren't hallucinogenics such as marijuana simply.... hallucinogenics? Their function is to make people hallucinate, confusing their senses and giving them a false sense of heightened awareness. So isn't that it? They're not a magical gateway to God, are they?
... However, this is where the known explanations end. There is still very little to explain why many individuals experience "flashbacks" or a re-experiencing of events while "tripping" on acid weeks and months after their last use, or why experiences exist during an '___' trip that can not be recreated without the use of psychoactively similar compounds, such as tasting color, seeing music and hearing inanimate objects breathe (7).
Originally posted by TheB1ueSoldier
Very very strange... Hallucinations aside, I still don't understand how drugs could possibly make you closer to God.
Results
Psilocybin produced a range of acute perceptual changes, subjective experiences, and labile moods including anxiety. Psilocybin also increased measures of mystical experience. At 2 months, the volunteers rated the psilocybin experience as having substantial personal meaning and spiritual significance and attributed to the experience sustained positive changes in attitudes and behavior consistent with changes rated by community observers.
Conclusions When administered under supportive conditions, psilocybin occasioned experiences similar to spontaneously occurring mystical experiences. The ability to occasion such experiences prospectively will allow rigorous scientific investigations of their causes and consequences.
Originally posted by TheB1ueSoldier
Very very strange... Hallucinations aside, I still don't understand how drugs could possibly make you closer to God.
[edit on 4/22/2007 by TheB1ueSoldier]
Originally posted by queenannie38
We'll all get there eventually. One way or another. Grace not law. Judge not but believe and trust in GOD. He's got us all in HIS hands.
Originally posted by TheB1ueSoldier
Forgive me, for I've never used illegal drugs. But, aren't hallucinogenics such as marijuana simply.... hallucinogenics? Their function is to make people hallucinate, confusing their senses and giving them a false sense of heightened awareness. So isn't that it? They're not a magical gateway to God, are they?
Originally posted by runetang
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So maybe with that, I can understand, but with the harder psychadelics like '___' and Peyote and '___' and weird things like this.. ehh, maybe for an interesting spiritual experience or two, but my very small experience with it left me overall, frightened. Granted I was given entirely too much I believe.
But in referrence to that fact sheet, I did see music. Strangest experience of my life. No, not the notes .. reality, my vision, my eyesight of that which was around me, basically all that I could see, became the music, so when the music made highs and lows, it would appear as if invisible sound waves were traveling through my full view of vision of reality, indiscriminately, all of it, and making it all move and warp to the shape of those sound waves, which were in tune with the song. So yeah, never did that again. (not trying to make this an experience thread sorry)
Originally posted by Royal76
Budda came up with '___'
Peotae
Pot heads: Love everyone, chilled personality, long hair, etc.
Originally posted by queenannie38
Originally posted by Royal76
Budda came up with '___'
I thought it was Timothy O'Leary?
The strongest hallucinogen for mankind is '___' and is one that our own brains produce and distribute (albeit in varying intensities from individual to individual).