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Originally Posted by icecube
It's a little frustrating when there are these fascinating implications that we may be biologically hardwired to have these life changing mystical/spiritual experiences with psychedelics, and people aren't intrigued whatsoever.
They just say- "oh drugs are weird and you're tripping" without delving any deeper into the matter.
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Sorry, didn't mean to dismiss it like that. To elaborate, I'd say that a lot of what we see as God or think of as some special moment we had can be a construct of the mind, and nothing more. I was once in Thailand on Malaria medication known to cause hallucinations. We were staying in a hut and I woke up in the middle of the night. Not dreaming, but awake. I saw Thai girls with knives going through our bags stealing our things. They were there, 100% real to me. I watched for a couple minutes before waking my friend up. Even after he said "dude, there are no girls here" I still saw them. Then they vanished before my eyes.
The point of the story is that there were no girls, it was a construct of my mind based on the situation we were in and the drugs I was on. So if a girl does hallucinogens and claims to speak with God, it doesn't make it's existence any more real than the Thai girls were. And you don't need to be on drugs to have these experiences. Thus, the mind is a powerful thing, and when people say God exists within you, there is some truth to that, becuase you made it all up, without ever knowing it.