Hi Adam, have I welcomed you yet? just in case I haven't (I've been forgetful these days) then....

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It's great to see you share so honestly with us...that's how it should be! I had a couple of experiences similar to yours in that I would now see them as "spiritual"....though I've done many drugs in my past, the only two times it happened was when I took mushrooms and I was out in nature.....one night I was out on the beach with my bro and the night sky was clear and bright with stars....the sky looked "round" and the horizon looked "round"....I don't know how else to describe it but it was glorious....like I could see the earth from where I was...on it, but also out side of it....and the stars were really pulsating and then suddenly there were lights flashing of different colors....my brother saw them too...we laughed and thought maybe they were ufo's....I actually wasn't a Christian at the time...in the religious sense...but I was a seeker of truth and knew there was something in life beyond what we could "see".

Another time I was laying in the grass and I could see each blade of grass intricately with every little detail, and then my vision went INTO the grass, inside it....and it was all sparkling lights and glowing....no words to describe it really....I just knew I never wanted it to end....the next day I went out to lie in the grass to bring back that "vision", but alas, it just looked like plain old grass....only this time I knew there was something "alive" in there....ha!

The funny thing is, several years later I became a Christian, (as in the whole church experience) and I was told that all those drugs produced something demonic and I needed to be "delivered" from that....that only made me fearful and took away the beauty of the experience....

it wasn't until God freed me from the religious system that I was able to see what God was showing me in those experiences...glimpses really, because I'm not saying drugs is the way to go, and in essence I believe they can only take you so far....but I think in some cases that certain drugs can help us go back to that childlike wonder, and stop us from questioning what we are seeing and just experience it....but eventually, thinking comes back into it and we lose the essence, but we're left with the memory of what's possible. That's the cool part.

Now I don't really have to label my experiences as anything other than another glorious step in my journey of exploring. When we are eating from the tree of good and evil, we might label drug experiences as "bad/evil", but when we eat from the tree of Life (Christ) there is then no condemnation but only an acknowledgment of a lesson learned towards knowing God.

Peace and love,
Diana

ps....in the movie "The 11th hour" they were talking about how mushrooms are a wonderful organism that can help with pollution: "Mushrooms also have the very bizarre property of hyper accumulating heavy metals....." They are considered to be a natural resource to "prevent downstream pollution from microbes, viruses, pollutants, bacteria etc"...which they call mycofiltration...

it struck me that perhaps the mushrooms filtered out the polluting clingy-ness of my thoughts to form, and thus allowed me to transcend that momentarily and go beyond form and see the vastness of the universe in the sky, and the vastness of the universe in a blade of grass...the macrocosm and the microcosm of Spirit!!!