AnAbnormalYoungMan…
I swear, you name a drug, and I took it. With the possible exception of some of the newest designer drugs I have done it all. I left Viet Nam in 1970 strung out on smack, and quit it totally once back in the world. Stationed in Georgia, found LSD and Mescaline. Old school had it that when one had tripped over 100 times, they wore a leather strap tied to their thigh, I wore two of them. Got shipped to Germany and couldn’t get good acid anymore so I went straight to crystal meth. That my friend is the cruelest drug in the world. It reeks havoc on the body and the mind. After the Army, I quit most class A narcotics, and just drank. And after many years as a functioning alcoholic, I hit my bottom. And Found myself in AA.

That is a short history of my drinking and drugging career. The reason I posted on spirituality was myself and Amerikasend were having this discussion on the nature of this thing we call spirituality. Amerikasend has a hard time with formal religion, and that is not hard to understand, and I wanted to draw the distinction between what I see as my spiritual path and that path.

On your question on chemical enlightenment, seeing God while high on LSD, there is something to that. But it was like quicksilver for me, as soon as that grand dimensional awareness struck me, it slipped away. I had the most profound thoughts that I couldn’t remember 5 seconds after having them. It was peak through a crack in the door. But it was not walking over the threshold.

Richard