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I don't think any drug can take the place of real spiritual work and raising one's awareness through focus and faith.
That said, I often felt a very palpable, intense sensation of the connection between all people, and all living things while I was shrooming. I did once or twice feel an increased awareness of the supernatural or paranormal while tripping on acid, but it was not a regular thing, and it was usually very transitory, even when I was seriously tripping balls. On the other hand, for me, a big part of the shroom experience was the euphoria of connection with everything, and joy in the moment of existence.
I did have seriously spiritual visions while tripping once, but it was not during recreational use. A friend and I vision-quested at the edge of the Mojave desert once. We did a juice fast for three days, along with intensive meditation and focus, then went out to a sheltered spot on the edge of the desert, and took a cocktail of peyote and mescaline. We meditated separately while waiting for the stuff to kick in, and when it did, we both had long, long visions of intensely mystical nature. After we came down, both of us agreed that what we had experienced was helpful for us, spiritually. But we were both doing a lot of spiritual work otherwise in our lives, also: meditation, reading, prayer, etc. I would presume that the same cocktail of drugs, done recreationally, by people not doing the same kind of work and prep, would not have the same effect.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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