what do you think of drug use for spiritual purposes?

Well, psychoactive drugs have been used since humans discovered them in prehistoric times. Many people still use them as part of religious rituals, and attribute the hallucinogenic effects as a way to enter the spirit world etc

There is even a theory that early Christians were heavy users of psychedelic mushrooms. One of the investigators of the Dead Sea Scrolls wrote a book on it.

("The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth" by John Marco Allegro)

I drugs being used as a spiritual tool is alright... so long as it's used as a spiritual tool. This means that you don't smoke some weed on your day off just to kick back and giggle and then call it a spiritual event. I think the claim should carry some merit by it's actions. And I'm also of the opinion that a Spiritual tool looses it's essence with over uses.

In other words, in an initiation, dedication, vision quest or some other religious marker I could see using a drug as an appropriate action. I would not approve of someone using it every week, with no "event" and calling it a "spiritual purpose". In fact... that would probably tick me off.

But that's just my OP.

because all of us is regularly ignorant, and could hearken to what their leaders tell them, in spite of the actuality that if it is patently pretend. Addendum: merely did it! - "well being disadvantages - it damages your body, and it also makes you very in all probability to have an coincidence and habit" Nonsense. no longer in easy words are hallucinogens nonaddictive, yet they're *some distance* a lot less risky than alcohol. sugarbee - "precisely what do drugs and spirituality have in person-pleasant? And if someone desirous to leap off a cliff would you stick with, merely because it is your constitutional accurate?" drugs will be an *wonderful* perception into spirituality. perhaps the superb way. And what does that would want to do with leaping off a cliff? international Funeral - "Salvia remains criminal in maximum states. i have used it some cases, flavor like absolute **** in spite of the indisputable fact that it is going to genuinely deliver you on the holiday of your existence." Salvia divinorum is *no longer* what maximum all of us is going to be searching for in words of psychotropics. It in easy words lasts about 5 minutes, it would not even really adjust your psychological state, and it is a few distance too extreme for everyone except those already quite experienced with thoughts-replacing drugs.

Drug use to "become spiritual" are some very mislead people. satan loves playing people for a fool.