Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00324)

       Drugs -   Well I have to admit that my first insight or awakening into
another world and the possibility of the spiritual came from doing LSD about
26 years ago.  I think it is dangerous though, and haven't done a drug for 25
years.  But who knows??! I don't for sure.   I don't know much about
shammanism other than that some seem to conservatively take hallucinogens over
their whole lifetime without apparrent serious debilitation.   The use of
drugs certainly isn't anything Blavatsky recommended for the Theosophical
method, which doesn't mean there aren't other "Paths" or that all other paths
are somehow evil, although not as wise I think myself.    Its certainly not
right to try to impose one's own convictions (Theosophy) or methods on someone
else beyond a certain point.  Everybody's path isn't the same or meant to be
the same!
                      -  Jake J.