I smoke everyday wake and bake etc.. when I stop I feel the pull, I feel anger etc.. there is definitely something to this comment although from the thick of it it feels like an enjoyment. Does it really serve me?

matcha is psychoactive via l-theanine and caffeine.

Booze dharma

@@alextrusk1713 Booza-dharma 🤔

SAME

I'm bowing even though you can't see me!

He has interesting ideas but he's not an "ambassador"

What’s the difference between your revelations and your delusions?

The key-question is less, in my opinion: Can I get "alternative" insights by transcending the "natural attitude" (Schütz, Berger/Luckmann), whereby the "triggers" may vary? Yes, you can, the possibility is given. It´s rather: How reliable, valid, and sustainable are they -- and what adverse effects are connected with certain methods (and performances)? -- Timothy Leary and his collagues, i.m.o., made that clear, too, at least during the times, when they still where doing serious scientific studies (yet, I don´t know if their papers, books, etc. are still publicly available, some re-reading might be interesting). Among the "contraindications" regarding Zen, speaking of Zen-diseases (禅病), there is the warning that, under certain circumstancies, and dependend on individual dispositions, Zazen can get addictive (with showing of symptoms similar to the phenomenology of the use of psychoactive substances) to some practitioners (which would run counter to the basic "liberational" intents). True story! Anyway: Handle with care! That´s what I take from this.

@@jays2924 Revelations are an experience and delusions are just thoughts.

@@gunterappoldt3037 I think the insights have been pretty reliable. Example: don't hold on to attachments, compassion is energy, developing discernment, everything is one, the illusion of the self, etc... A lot of people "come down" after a trip, but if you meditate and reflect on the experiences, the trip never ends. Human perception is a controlled hallucination (according to neuroscientists); and sometimes having an uncontrolled hallucination (shrooms) can help you see things through a lens of suchness. I learn something new every time I trip, and most of the time there is a buddhist teaching that runs parallel.

@@CaptMang If I remember right, T. Leary once called Dr. Hoffmann´s Lyserg-Säure-Dimethylamid synthetic-extract a "religious drug", because it, tendentially (i.e., varying according to dispositions and circumstances), induces "religious" - however one my define "religiosity" - experiences. This also implies, among other things, a certain "confirmation bias". So, for example, if one is inclined to Christianity, one may have visions of Jesus Christ, or, if one is more inclined towards Buddhism, one may have visions of direct/authentic insights into the Dharma (non-self/oceanic feeling, fleeting world, trans-lingual altered states of consciousness/mind-being, also some mild/strong "megalomania", etc.). NB.: One of the basic substances comes from the so called "mother-corn", a colony of fungi which befalls corn/barley/wheat. It can cause some special symptoms in people which, e.g., have eaten infested bread (because the fungi are resistant against heat). In the middle ages, in Europe, people did not know the bio-chemical background. They only noticed the symptoms and explained them using their medieaval "matrix", which was highly charged with half "pagan", half Christian "religiosity", and, among other things, produced correspoding works of art, namely paintings (e.g., the bodily symptoms "projected" onto the "suffering Messiah"). This might even be generalizable regarding the human mind-set and culture-building as such, so that, e.g., the ritual drink, called "soma", may have influenced the whole fabric of the "sanatana" (vulgo Hinduism) in significant ways (and "religious drugs" still seem to be widely in use in India). And, another example, diverse "shroomings" seem to be "mirrored" in certain features of Maya-arts (architecture, paintings, designs, etc.). The origins of "religions" as such may even be connected to "substances, giving visions", "promoting Communitas", and so forth. This all makes really for an interesting field of study, i.m.o., but it is also -- one may/can/has to regret it for some valuable reasons (Dr. Hoffmann expanded on these, and others also did/do) - still heavy burdened with "taboos", some of them more reasonable than others; it still seems to be something like a "mine field". I would characterize it, in a "value-free descriptive" manner, as "multidimensional and polyvalent" -- and deep(er) knowledge about "al that stuff" as beeing quite significant for a (more) correct understanding of the Conditio humana. PS.: As far as neuroscientists are themselves human beings, their claim is self-contradictory (or, from an alternative perspective, Arahat-ish). They posit themselves, -- inside-looking-out outside-looking-in, -- like divine, transhuman inhabitant´s of Plato´s "heaven of ideas". That is their share of "religiosity", I guess.

That's interesting. I'm sorry I didn't see this comment until just now (9 months after you posted it!). I, too, am troubled by frequent and severe headaches. I don't know if they're migraines or cluster headaches. Different doctors have called them both. I didn't smoke any weed at all for years - from about age 25 until I was in my 40s. I tried it again in my 40s because I thought it might help with my headaches. But it only made me high... with a headache. Which was worse than having a headache while sober. But I do see how cannabis can be useful medicinally. I'm glad it's helped you.

Sounds like paranoid schizophrenia

It's been about an hour for me, time to take another toke, thanks be to Jesus!

Mixing buddhism and drugs is a false premise to begin with as the former is opposed to the latter so don't kid yourself.

@@ciaranperry4677 I promised I'm not kidding myself. I agree that drugs don't have anything to do with Buddhist practice. I was just curious to explore and the main thing I took from it as that even on drugs, zazen still was the most important thing I could possibly do.

I did it too..To find out the mushroom experiences are the mushroom experiences and zazen it's zazen. I enjoy both but not together... And both provide different experiences...

Please don’t say shrooms

@@xClunky For future reference, the best way through a heavy mushroom trip is to just lay down and try to go to sleep. At least, that's my go-to.

I'm just the opposite.

What about him?

it took me a while to get used to charles bukowski, but really, he's one of the great poets. he was honest about himself

Bukowski is sad!

@@BagelBagelBagel why not read him ?

It could. But then again, lots of Zen people drink tea to help stay awake during long zazen. I had to give up caffeine myself because it caused me headaches. I've been caffeine-free for about 20 years, I think.

It's up to you. There have been plenty of people who have sat under such conditions. One book I know ion about the subject is called The Lotus in the Fire.