--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yet Jim in a post yesterday dismissed the analogy of acid induced > states of being as not valid because they were not permanent.
Though it was Rory who said that, I did want to add that the quid pro quo regarding drug induced or enhanced spiritual experiences is that the experiences *are* produced by the drug, and so whatever the drug adds to the body and mind in order to produce an effect, must necessarily be depleted afterwards, so there is a net zero effect. The most commonly known of these depletion results is the alcohol induced "hangover". This see-sawing of the physiology makes it impossible, as your friends noted, to induce permanent spiritual change solely through drug use, no matter how insightful the drug induced experiences might be.:-)
