Drugs and Relgious experieances
...eriences throughout time. For example, over 500 years ago the Chichimeca Indians used the psychedelic substance of the Peyote cactus to have religious experiences. (Evans and Hoffman) This exemplifies my point that psychedelic drugs have been used for religious experiences for an extensive period time. In addition, it helps show that some of these experiences actually are drug induced. Psychedelics are capable of being a faster, easier or less painful way to achieve an experience. For instance, in the Bestiary religion you mortify your flesh to release your suffering soul or depression. (Beaven) Instead they might use magic mushrooms to erase their ego and improve the condition of their “suffering soul.” (Pierce) Religious experiences can be excruciatingly painful and some psychedelics can make the experience less agonizing, faster and at times easier. When some Psychedelic drugs or substances are used correctly, they can and do produce religious experiences. Many religions exercise the usage of psychedelic drugs or substances to achieve religious experiences. For instance, some medicine men known as Shamans use LSD for in their religion, they call the religious experience, “a quests for answers.” (Mckenna) Some might say that it’s not an actual religious experience because they supposedly become delusional. It is the same because other religious experiences are making the belief become real to the person. Consequently, it illustrates that when these certain psychedelic drugs are used correctly they produce religious experiences. Various persons may possibly imply that these experiences are not the same as religious experiences because they are brought on by outside substances. This is true, however how is it that so many religions use psychedelics or even drugs in general to achieve Religious experiences. Religions have even based their entire belief around certain psychedelics. In addition to that, throughout history drugs have been used in many religions, even ...