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Can Marijuana be considered a spiritual drug?

HumbleYogi

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I've tried searching for related posts on BL but came across nothing. I was wondering what anyones thoughts would be on the question. I know it is a essential part of Indian cultures, but does anyone think if you were to sit alone by yourself and treat the smoking session as a spiritual experience. As you wait for whatever happens to come to mind would it be your imagination, or would you maybe begin to interpret life in a new understanding?

Personally I think it can be, but I am just curious right now in my point of life as I still try to become more spiritual.

All opinions are welcome.
 
Sure. In my life pot has become an ever more self-critical thing as opposed to leaning or appreciating anything outside of myself. Confession, self-flagellation. How to blame yourself and forgive others.
Not something to do in the presence of others who are trying to relax and have a good time, like I used to be able, and it's never lead to me being able to forgive myself.
However there is truth to be found in that. This is why I very rarely partake nowadays.
 
I'm with you on not being able to do in the presence of others who are trying to have a good time. Appreciate the comment.
 
sure
anything can be spiritual
its all about your intent and beliefs
 
Yes. I don't like to smoke it, as I get anxious, but when I eat it, I get a lot more out of it. I find that it helps me discard phoniness, whether its my own self-deception, or other people's ego games. It lets me remain calm and unfazed in the face of things that normally make me reactive in some way.

Yeah, it helps me see the bullshit. Although, if I do too much, I see lots of bullshit and it becomes counter-productive. There is only so much bullshit that one can process at any given moment.

For me, cannabis isn't spiritual as in om-mani-padme-hum-my-chakras-are-glowing-my-mind-is-pristine-now, it's more of a mundane i'm-hungry/tired/high-and-your/my-bullshit-seems-laughable-now, let's chill the FUCK out. Still valuable, but certainly a different flavor of spirituality than say, mushrooms.
 
it is by many

dont forget there are religoins that place spiritual significance on things like rocks, of course it can be spiritual for some/those who allow it
 
Yes, definitely! Amazingly so when you need it most. I had one such experience a couple weeks ago. I am in a transitional phase in life, and circumstances are such that my preferred habit of smoking pot whenever I choose is not possible, so I had gone months without it. My buddy got a hold of some, and brought it over by surprise on a night when I happened to be going through doubts about my direction in life, and doubted that I could carry on making the changes to my lifestyle I need to make. One hit, and I was good as tripping, and my seemingly scared brain realized how fortunate I am to have family that is supportive of me as I go through this transition, and all doubts of my ability to carry through with these transformations were erased; I saw I don't need the old vices; I wanted to continue learning to live without the warmth of pain killers...all I need is some weed, and my prescription for adderall. And I really do need the adderall, I had been off it for months as well thought I was brain damaged, got a new script about a week before this pot experience, and I could think again, like a fog had been lifted. But adderall is not a medicine for the soul and doesn't fill me with knowledge and divine grace like pot.

In fact, that night was so incredible I have been working on a trip report about it; it is up there with some of my more transformative psychedelics experiences. I will never forget the lessons I learned that night. Now if only I could get some more pot! :)
 
Cannabis can be spiritual, as long as you make it spiritual. Rastas don't just smoke ganja and sing Bob Marley tunes, although that would be very uplifting if your spirits were down; they read the bible, or contemplate the meaning of life and existence. It pretty much depends on your thoughts and mindset before and after you smoke, possibly even subconscious thoughts that you aren't aware of. In my experience, smoking marijuana has lead to epiphanies, evolving awareness, renewed appreciation for life, divine inspiration, but it has also lead to mild paranoia (only while the high lasts), seclusion, and not so positive thoughts. The type of environment you're in affects your high as well.

But, overall, yea it can.
 
IMO definitely!!! Especially when eaten.

Moving this from PD >> CD.
 
But cannabis has it's own forum to keep from cluttering PD with weed questions. :)


This one's tricky for me. I want to say cannabis can be used for and to enhance spiritual experiences, but lately I'm finding that I have no real understanding of spirituality and religion. I don't mean to derail this thread on that thought, just wanted to give you the grain of salt to take my post with.

When the bottom line for me is, though, considering there's many religions that use it as part of their worship I'd say it's a safe bet that spiritual use of cannabis is widely (if not commonly) embraced around the world.
 
1 of the two most spiritual experiences I've ever had was from weed. It came after some kind of panic attack where i realized alot of stuff... Anyway! I got thrusted out of my body. Time and space disappeared, and I was touched by what some would call god. It's 8 years ago but I will never forget it.

I didn't smoke often back then, and I probably smoked way too much. I did not know what "dosage" meant back then. I smoke every night now, and it has really lost all of those qualities, unfortunately.
I will try oral ingestion though. Sounds interesting

EDIT: Not a real panick attack though. I just didn't feel very good
 
If your are a spiritual person then of course. I am a very spiritual person and find that getting high puts me in a very meditative state. The thing is as a very spiritual person I find that almost anything given the right circumstances can be spiritual.

If you are not a spiritual person, or you just dont believe in that "mumbo-jumbo" then smoking weed wont be a spiritual experience for you.

Its not about the drug, its about the person.

HumbleYogi said:
Why? Cannabis is considered a psychedelic?
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It is a psychedelic, but it is also so much more. Because Cannabis has its own very diverse culture of user's (like the every growing population of folks who normally would never touch "drugs" but use cannabis for medical reasons), we are special and get our own section!
 
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How far can we abstract this concept of fucking around with your brain, using a purely physical mechanism (Not that there is any other sort of mechanism, but I digress...)? Can opium be spiritual? How about methamp? Anaesthesia emergence? Lack of perfusion to brain? A tire iron to the back of the head? Rapidly changing, powerful magnetic fields to change the membrane potentials of neurons?

Are the frank hallucinations produced by nodding out, tweaking balls, halohydrocarbons, stroke/near drowning, head injury or a piece of fairly simple electrical equipment any less (or more) meaningful than cannabis for some arbitrary reason?

Or, are they all, just like cannabis, exactly that, fucking hallucinations caused by some sort of (be it temporary or permanent, and regardless of it's magnitude) aberrant physical process in your brain. (Be it an exogenous receptor ligand, or unusually high accelerations of the brain/head)
 
Is spirituality a single dimensional grid where every action and object falls into a certain range of discreet values measuring the spirituality?

That being said I find cannabis can get me more in touch with my own spirituality, it can also distance me from spiritual thoughts, actions and state of being. It's all about how ya use it I s'pose.
 
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