This is indeed a very Interesting perspective from Hameed (A. H. Almaas) on psychedelics. My take on this: If you cannot access the same realisation you are having on psychedelics without them, you are not using them properly - yet! What does it take to use them properly? It requires developing a solid spiritual practice. Without it, the use of psychedelics can be quite dangerous. Even if not in all cases dangerous, it remains incomplete! Why incomplete? Well, it´s not the case that we modern people are the first ones to use them, right? There is a long standing tradition of using psychedelics going back for thousands of years and these indigenous traditions are using them in context of healing and initiation - which means: they do not use them without the context of initiation and solid spiritual practice. That should be enough for us to respect and learn from them as much as we can!
Interesting analogy, about wearing a spiritual tradition as a hat. You are not your clothing. I guess being naked is the best way to find the truth of who you are....just to uncomfortable for most to practice, or too much pressure to adopt the spiritual clothing of others.
Almaas is right. DMT provides cheap thrills but not the real deal. Authentic spirituality requires one to do the inner work. The inner work involves intense suffering so it's no wonder people try to find shortcuts through drugs.
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This is indeed a very Interesting perspective from Hameed (A. H. Almaas) on psychedelics.
My take on this: If you cannot access the same realisation you are having on psychedelics without them, you are not using them properly - yet!
What does it take to use them properly? It requires developing a solid spiritual practice. Without it, the use of psychedelics can be quite dangerous. Even if not in all cases dangerous, it remains incomplete!
Why incomplete? Well, it´s not the case that we modern people are the first ones to use them, right? There is a long standing tradition of using psychedelics going back for thousands of years and these indigenous traditions are using them in context of healing and initiation - which means: they do not use them without the context of initiation and solid spiritual practice. That should be enough for us to respect and learn from them as much as we can!
There is only a handful of people I consider true geniuses, and Almaas is one of them. I don't see anybody who's that nuanced while totally free.
Interesting analogy, about wearing a spiritual tradition as a hat. You are not your clothing. I guess being naked is the best way to find the truth of who you are....just to uncomfortable for most to practice, or too much pressure to adopt the spiritual clothing of others.
Almaas is right. DMT provides cheap thrills but not the real deal. Authentic spirituality requires one to do the inner work. The inner work involves intense suffering so it's no wonder people try to find shortcuts through drugs.