Overall, I've had more "spiritual" experiences when I was clean and sober than when I was on drugs. I've posted about the few exceptions elsewhere. Drugs can be useful in combination with ritual activities for inducing spiritual experience, but for the most part I'm inclined to believe that the same experiences can be achieved - and will have more lasting value and be more easily duplicated - through a lot of discipline and hard work in practices described by people who have had ample experience in these matters - i.e., the well-known and respected sages and mystics of ages past.
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