Drugs and higher consciousness
I have been following some discussions on Joe Rogan's podcast about the benefits of achieving higher consciousness by using various drugs. My opinion. Fundamentally, a person can achieve a higher consciousness or altered consciousness by using a drug. It is a state that spikes and fades depending on the persons karma expressed through genetics, social environment, and spiritual state of being. 3 states not 2 as psychologists suggest. There is a cost and benefit analysis that occurs. Drugs will tax the system in exchange for the altered consciousness. Not everyone can handle this well. Often a person will be left in a lessor state of being from when they started. Or they will need to continuously invoke the effect of the drug as a type of addiction. Thus losing performance in the everyday life. In comparison meditation and prayer will follow the same consciousness path but over a longer interval of time. A practitioner will slowly build up their existence to hold ...