Psychedelic Drugs & Kundalini

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Questions:

22. Have you had anything akin to a religious experience when on hallucinogens? That is, do you experience a deeper sense of unity with things, have some aprehension of God, or get insights into the nature of things? Please specify yes or no, and describe such insights please.

Percent Yes	Percent No	Margin of Error
86.9 %	13.1 %	+/- 8.0 % (n=61)

 

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30. Have you ever had an out-of-body experience when on hallucinogens? (yes or no)

Yes	No	% Error (n=61)
40	60	+/- 12 %

 

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Subject ID	22. Religious Exp?	22. Religious Experience - Textual responce
1	Yes	yes..It seems that when Im tripping, everything is interconnected with eachother, and nature seems to be a check-and-balance sort of deal.
2	No	Nope - my conclusion is that there's nothing there.
3	Yes	Yes, and I can't describe it. Basically, I became "God" or whatever it is that makes up "God" -- OR I had an increidbly strange god-like hallucination. Previously, I was an atheist. Now, I believe in "God" or something like God. And I have been provided with lots of "insight" into the "nature" of things, but I am very skeptical of everything so I don't believe much ...
4	Yes	That everything we do is interconnected in subtle and indirect ways. God is present as a mysterious force present in everything. I feel much more empathic towards nature and the natural world.
5	Yes	Yes With LSD and Psylosibin in strong doses an overwhelming feeling of being part of everything from stars to the earth under your feet a very strange feeling of being personally inconsequential but at the same time part of a much greater thing
6	No	-
7	Yes	yes. One night everything went 'normal', until at one time I had a very strange experience of time; moments seemed to be disconnected from each other, and all these moments seemed to happen at the same time. I _knew_ this, it was a unquestionable fact, I was shocked and at the same time another part of me looked at the situation in total rest (my friends trying to help me because I acted strange, while I couldn't be reached because I was mentally elsewhere). I had some aftershocks of panicking that night, I didn't really become the old one that night.
8	Yes	Yes. all the time, the most vivid one was whem i took 3 tabs of very strong acid and i felt as if i was in a whole kind of unity with the world and how it works, and theat i knew who we were. Another time i completely knew what i wanted to do with my life.
9	Yes	errr...yes, but I wouldn't call it religios as it has nothing to do with organized religion. But sometimes you realize what is REALLY going on in the world and what you should do about it. Ihave acted on some of these "insights" and actually think they HAVE improved my life. I guerss the insights are invoved with thoughts to do with "wow...this world is really fucked up...all these people running around in a ratrace buying things to decorate their lives with-- i want NONE of that! "
10	Yes	Yes. God is apparent, like I have His home phone number, but I don't have any overriding need to call Him or anything.
11	Yes	once when i ate half an ouce of shrooms, i saw a tunnel of light. as i was peaking, i had to concentrate, and had the feeling that i had to "hold on for dear life", and resist the light. i knew that if i gave in and relaxed my hold, i might never come back, but become insane, or dead. talk about religious experience!
12	Yes	Drugs convicinced me that there is a God, and that there are souls. Its very hard to explain my experience with this but there was a sound that I heard and I know that that sound was the universe. (wierd I know)
13	Yes	I didn't consider it religious, even though I am quite religious. I felt unity with my surroundings and everything seemed to be in harmony. The funny thing was that I couldn't convince others... all seemed so suspicious.
14	Yes	Yes. I often feel more at one with all things while tripping. Everything around me takes on a spiritual dimension, and I see the divinity in them.
15	No	Only in a mild way, in terms of realizing the connectedness of nature and people, and I believe I have always felt this way even before experimenting with drugs.
16	No	-
17	Yes	Yes, but it would take volumes of text to describe.
18	Yes	yes, I sometimes meditate while on psychedelics, and feel a sort of communion with consciousness outside my own. Not godlike, just the rest of the world.
20	Yes	er.. yes deeper sense of transpersonal existence, pervasive positive presence awareness of the void, the boundaries of human experience discovery of ontological qualia nothing 'spiritual' in a God-sense
21	Yes	yes, already described partly. not a christian religious experience per se - but a wholistic one. Although I did see "the devil" and wondered about that -
22	Yes	Well, I get this profound feeling constantly. Its like, you'll look at your little finger, and thats profound. You'll take a shit and think about how profound that was, and think about how it relates with modern culture and the situation the world is in... When I was doing a lot of acid we would try to do things to stimulate that. We would go to concerts and get blown away by the music. We would go downtown, and go up to the top of the buildings, just to look down 75 stories. We would go wandering in the woods, or on the beach. Really, I think the real understanding comes the next day. You have a chance, after sleeping on it, to sort out the noise from the real info, assimilate it and learn from it.
23	Yes	yes, as i have explained before i feel closer to people, nature especially, it's very spiritual, it has changed me, it has made me more accepting, and more caring
24	Yes	The closest I came to that was my bad trip, in which I nearly believed the devil was out to get me. That also meant there was a God. Since then, I do beleive in things unexplainable. Before that, I was a rationalist. The insight I gained was that there are things that cannot be explained and have to be accpeted at face value. (Which is not to say that you can't *try* to understand them)
25	Yes	Yes, although I would not call it religious. To me, it is very spiritual to transcend life, the body, culture. I feel a part of universal energy.
26	Yes	On mushrooms- yes. A feeling of being one with the environment, being friends with the plants and (to a lesser degree) the animals around. Detachment from humanity. No religious experience. LSD- no, some revalation, but little else.
27	No	-
28	Yes	I came to realize that everything around me is alive and real. That nature is the truest power that exists, and that man made things all eventually crumble and leave us, or destroy the earth which gives us life.
29	Yes	Yes, I have allready touched on these. One cannot put these into words.
30	Yes	I am now atheist due to a lot of what I've experienced. I also feel closer to nature
31	No	-
32	Yes	yes, i figure a litle something about myself everytime.it helps me see my beliefs and my feelings
33	Yes	When pondering the above (Q. 19) idea as to a point to life, I realized that there was no point to individual life other than satisfaction of the indivdual. The main purpose of life is existence of the species as a whole, and this concerns only the species and it's co-dependents. The human race is no different than a bacterial culture or a mould, and it expands on it's media (earth) as mould on bread, spreading. The individual is no more important than the individual bacterium, etc. exept to individuals and others concerned with individuals. And all our drives are associated with the growth or maintenance of the culture.
34	No	-
35	Yes	I had an out of body experience. iI was lying on a bed with a friend watching the patterns my hands were making. I suddenly started to float up ( I tought I was levitating) but when I looked down my body was still there.
36	Yes	Yes, but it would take too long to go into any more detail then you have given.
37	Yes	Yes.. Too numerous to mention here (and I have already proven myself to be very wordy ;). Alot of insights regarding the nature of reality, our place in the world/universe, how insignificant and trivial alot of my and societies problems really are, and especially I have discovered how completely unimportant material posessions, status, money, etc, really are. I suppose these are fairly typical opinions of LSD-users though, or at least - the stereotypical acid user.
38	Yes	Yes, all 3. It's as though the drug allows me to convert any object or system of objects into an abstract containing the essences of the objects. This "pure" vision enables me to more clearly recognize the connections between everything in the universe. Upon witnessing these interactions, the intelligence behind everything is evident. I then see god as the union of all the matter/energy of the universe with all the intelligence that governs the interactions. Once I adjust to this mode of thinking, I seem to have little difficulty solving problems involving logic. I also seem to have far greater perception of external influences (such as the emotions of others).
39	Yes	yes- feel closer to God and meaning of life
40	Yes	yes -- see 19. The first time I experienced dissolution -- vision went, sense of me as separate from the world went -- I said "what is this?". A voice (a friend) said "This is existence", & I thought "wow, *this* is existence" -- it seemed like was seeing through a veil to the true reality of things. Now, a particular trip that I often get is that this world is constructed and unreal -- there is another *real* world, not as cosy as this one, where what I am is transparent to all. This (the normal) world is a copout & there will be a payback. The trip includes the idea that acid is the key -- that I can be catapulted into a different world thru its use. The upside is that that I've experienced an apparent union with elements of that other world. However, there is a threshold that it seems that I could cross to the full experience of that other world. I have never had the courage to cross it.
41	Yes	Yes. I've had one bad trip -- I heard voices around me, which I believed were akin to angels and demons. I also remember "getting" the scheme of things, and seeing the relationship between everything (but could not, for some reason, communicate it to others, out of dread). I belived, also, I was reliving a vast number of past lives in intensely quick succession. Another time, I experianced the End-of-the-World, as described in the Book of the SubGenius.
42	Yes	Yes. They run the scope of the spiritual spectrum. I have experienced untiy with the universe. I have been led on mystical voyages through the spirit world. On other occasions I have simply been overwhelmed by a state of bliss and divinity. The one thread that seems to be common to it all is an awareness of my own personal connection to the divine realms. That is that true spiritual power is found within rather than bestowed upon us by some outside force. It starts with the realization that all is as we percieve it and that no true harm can befall us in this life. We are eternal souls playing a game with ourselves to enrich the fabric of the universe. The most pronounced effect is a greater awareness of and sensitivity to energy fields.
43	Yes	Basically, yes, although I would say that my spirituality differs from that of most people.
44	Yes	Yes, I believe that if everyone in the world took acid and went out into the forest for a couple days, they would have a greater respect for God, nature, and especially life. I see the beauty of nature and what God has created. I become more thoughtful into why we are here.
45	Yes	Yes. I've had an OOBE while on lsd (as you know), and I've gotten a much better perspective into the nature of my inner self, as well as the nature of consciousness.
46	Yes	This is the BIG question. yes to all sub-parts. Some trips have the synchronicity, when everytnihg clicks together things happen at the right place at the right time. Others, are like you are an illuminati and can behold the simplicity of life and have experiences well beyond the scope of visual and other physical perception. I have experiences where I felt I was the center of my multiverse and the abstractions of emotion and interpersonal relationships comprising that multiverse were an outpouring of my soul which just so happens to be OUR collective soul. I suppose this could be my God experience. i don't really know what you about "apprehension of God. My trip exp's have con- vinced me that there is a Godhead composed of individual components representing every facet of the multiverse. Everything is connected => God is ALL, You are God, All is God, You are All, kinda thing.
47	Yes	Something like that - LSD has brought on several times a "superbrainsyndrome" - my intelligence seems to experience a steep rise. Also feeling of unity with nature. And mystical experiences of something looking after you...
48	Yes	YES!! I especially feel this on mushrooms. Once during an outta body experience I saw a place that I could only explain as the place where god resides.
49	Yes	yes, but they are impossible to put into words
50	Yes	Answer: yes. The first times I used hallucinogens I got very occupied with the connections of time, events, persons, life, death, universe. And was able to get a very vivid picture of how "everything" works. That we're all "one", and that life never ends, only changes form. That's the idea of God to me, everyone and everything is God. Since then I've been trying to figure out more details, more ways of "moving around" in the universe while under the influence of LSD.
51	Yes	yes, but they are impossible to put into words
52	Yes	Yes, a few times. Most of time I felt much more connected with the world around me and some inner world of sorts that emotions belonged to, for example. But, as to a sense of God or a Supreme Being or Infinity or something along those lines, very rarely. I had one occurance that was in that category: I took a tremendous amount of windowpane. We drove up to the mountains and decided to trip at this picnic area called Doc Longs. I always thought that was a funny name, like something out of Alice in Wonderland. The clouds were incredible. I was tripping really heavy and we decided it was best to go our own ways until later as talking was totally out of the question. So, I laid down on one of those concrete top picnic tables and just looked at the clouds. I think I told you about this in that other message I sent you. Anyway, the concrete felt cold and amazing. The clouds were equally incredible. They formed every imaginable shape from beautiful flowers and people's faces to demons and other assorted nasty things. Then a mandala of incredible complexity came in from the sides of my vision and I "rose up" into it and became merged with it. I could not think at all. It was powerful and beautiful beyond any words. I knew the significance of it and how the "world" as we know it related, but unfortunately not when I came down. After a while I have no more memories of what I experienced as I sort of "died" as a separate observer and I really don't know what happened "after" that. When I woke up it was dark and I was still lying on the table. It was 8-9 hours later! I felt very good and glad to be here and had a "sense" that I had been privy to something special and wonderful, but could not for the life of me remember what in the hell it was really all about. Oh well.
53	Yes	Yes, every time I do acid it is a deeply spiritual experience for me. I feel as if I walk in the presence of the Creator for the entire time I am altered. This creates a close bond between myself and my trip-partners. My friends and I know what the other is going to say long before the words are spoken, akin to telepathy. Communication with animals, especially dogs, also takes on this aspect. All things assume their proper place in the heirarchy of the world, and the teachings of my mother's people make perfect sense; indeed, all things on this earth are related, including the non-living things. All have in common the life-force endowed upon all things by the Creator.
54	Yes	Too many to tell!
55	No	NO, THAT HAPPENS WHEN I'M STONED
56	Yes	I will attempt to describe the spirituality I have gained through psychedelic experiences. It is very hard to put into words, and I hope you can make sense of it. I feel a sense of unity with all living beings, and I have felt the transcendent states of ego-loss, and of the unfathomable unformed universe. I do not know if there is a god or not, as I have never felt or met with his or her or its prescence. It is a possibility that such a concept exists, however. I have overcome the fear of death by experiencing ego-loss, while maintaining consciousness. The psychedelic experience is, in many ways akin to death and rebirth. Consciousness is an ever-present energy, which expands to great lengths and eventually retracts to nothing, just as the universe does. (Tibetan lamas and astrophysicists somehow have the same underlying idea) I don't want to claim that I am a great buddha or christ or saint because of this--it is something everyone must one day face. I am not perfect, I have desires, and I still experience pain and suffering occasionally. But, I also experience pleasure and happiness. I want to live a simple, joyous life, shared with friends, while always aware and awake to higher planes that exist. In other words, I am still young, and am somewhat tied to life-games. But realizing my spiritual potential, I may someday let go and become completely liberated.
57	Yes	yes, I feel that, especially with shrooms, there is a force outside of myself that is controlling what happens around me but not to me. I have learned to control and play with the trip, although I usually prefer to not dwell upon what it I am doing within the environment of the "non-ordinary reality". I have noticed that when a group of people are on shrooms together, they seem to have some outside interference in the trip, ie, there is a definite simultineaity between individuals of perceptual and actual experiences.
58	Yes	Definately. I've learned quite a bit about the nature of God, and the universe, and other divine beings. This is why I continue to drink our sacrament.
59	Yes	yes, every time I have the sense of interconnectedness, that we all belong to something greater than we could possibly imagine.
60	Yes	yes. i somtimes realize an event or occurences that are happening and how they will change my life e.g. my cousin going to jail and i found my natural mother (i'm adopted) it came to me that a very important person was leaving me while another important person was coming into my life.
61	Yes	YES. A FEELING OF UNITY IS THE KEY THING. NO THOUGHTS OF A GOD. AND MANY FLEETING INSGHTS. BUT THE FEELING OF UNITY, WHICH I HAD ALREADY BEEN DEVELOPING, CAME TO A PEAK WHILE TRIPPING. ONE TRIP IN PARTICULAR WAS FILLED WITH AN OVERWHELMING REALIZATION AND HAPPINESS OF UNITY. TO ME, THIS WAS THE DAY I FOUND MY SPIRITUALITY...AND REALIZED HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS FOR ME TO HAVE A SPIRITUAL CONNECTION, TO FEEL I'M A PART OF SOMETHING WONDERFUL. MY GOD HAS NO FACE, IT IS ALL THINGS. BUT IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE THAT ALL THIS COMPLEXITY WASN'T CONTRIVED, OR PERHAPS JUST, INTENTIONALLY INITIATED.
62	Yes	Yes, often feel a closer connection with the conscious universe (God?), and always have many insights; often the feeling that I'm doing the right things and am on the right path, a validation. Sometimes I experience a white light, which feels deeply spiritual.