| Topic: | Re:Re:Modeling: ‘spiritual’ experience |
| Posted by: | GPMG |
| Date/Time: | 22/12/2003 00:32:52 |
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To Jim R... I would be interested to hear your opinion on the use of psychodelic substances to increase spiritual awareness and heighten the senses, the substances I am thinking about are those used by certain shamanic traditions. Substances such as Iboga/Ibogaine, Yage/ayahuasca. And those not used by shamens such as salvia divinorum, DMT and LSD. I don't want to get involved with the moral issues behind such usage, only interested in your views on opening up the mind to a wider sense of experience. Perhaps as some do, it is viewed as a dangerous short cut but I prefer to think that if the brain has the receptors to receive these substances then they do have a purpose in developing human evolution. Cheers GPMG |