Mike,
The body must be able to support wide-open functioning. Drugs never enable
this.
Too many people who take rather severe drugs have physical blocks of various
kinds, and the actions and perceived "effects" of the drug are thus partially
proper to the drug itself, and proper to the person's own physical problems
(let's leave aside mental problems).
Thus, the drug experience is extremely perverse.
I say these things not at all in consideration of the Law, but in view of the
wisdom and advisability of avoiding considering such entertainments or rash
experiments. Maybe those shamans in the cultures where this is traditional can
get some cultural benefit for themselves and for their tribe, but I don't think
it can be generalized, or universalized.
But I think we can state what can be universalized:
Body and Mind have an energy all their own; Drugs have a body and mind of their
own. Be careful!
Better to practice. Practice prepares the body, conditions it, nourishes it,
and enables it to serve as an open conduit of Wisdom and Compassion, because
that is our nature. Not a plant's nature! Practice is the best wakefulness
medicine. There is no other wakefulness medicine.
Not even Chris's caffeine.
--Joe
> uerusuboyo@... wrote:
>
> Joe, I know it sounds crazy to those who haven't tried or experienced it, but
> I think there is also a nature consciousness that entheogens allow us to
> enter.
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