Atheism, Theism, Science & Philosophy

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But, earlier, you were saying that the only way to experience God is to transcend our sensory perceptions, but don't psychedelic drugs actually increase your sensory perception, i.e. to such an extent that it even distorts them? And do you suggest that people should take those drugs?

In my life, I have experimented with several psychdelic drugs including LSD, psilocybin (mushrooms), DMT and MDMA. I have yet to experiment with mescaline although it is certainly on my list of "things to do" before I die. At present, I am actually 100% tee-total and have been for the past six years; I am not interested in taking any other drugs (including alcohol) apart from mescaline and, perhaps, LSD and DMT again. My experimentation with these substances profoundly altered my perceptions of reality; LSD in particular. I was actually profoundly shocked by what I discovered on LSD, and really was not prepared for this kind of radical transformation in terms of the way I viewed external reality.

What I felt whilst under the influece of these substances is that they, as Huxley would put it, open your "Doors of Perception" and seem to transcend consciousness beyond normal five sense perception into some kind of profound spirit realm. Dr. Rick Strassman wrote the book "DMT: The Spirit Molecule", which I found to be very intriguing.