Drugs for mental/spiritual exploration

[VinceZeb]

Truthfully, I have only smoked weed and hash in my life, and I can say the experience was less than interesting. All I kept hearing was cop sirens and I thought I was drowning in my own spit.

The problem I have with drugs as a "spiritual expander" is pretty basic. Bill Hicks was a big believer in drugs for that above purpose. Now he hated organized religion, but since he was getting high to expand his mind, it was ok. That is the problem I have. Unless doing drugs is deeply-rooted in your culture, like it is with American Indians, then a vast majority of the time your doing it just to be "cool." I'm sorry, but if you need drugs to encounter some kind of spirtual feeling, then you are shallow to begin with.

People believe you can just access spirituality from doing drugs. It's something that is ALWAYS in you. You don't go to your spiritual side, its just always there. I don't want to sound like a hippy, but its true. Doing drugs to try to get spiritual because you don't like religion doesn't make you wise or ancient, it makes you an idiot and a stoner.

Do drugs because you want to get high. Don't act like it makes you creative or any of that bullshit. If you are not creative to begin with, it won't make you any moreso.

Would I do drugs again? Possibly. Do I seek to get high? Not really.