Anyone experiences with psychedelics and meditation?
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Generally speaking the drug will have some somatic effect which in turn modifies perception. This kind of modification can aid in realizing the awareness or insight (dukkha-anicca-anatta). but like xxxx says you need to have a strong intention, or you might get carried away by paranoia, random ideas, and other desires. If the intention is not strong you will run away from the three marks (dukkha-anicca-anatta). this indicates you crave sensuality, being, and not-knowing, and prapanca (furthering) is your true intent, not realizing the dhamma.
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There definitely is a relationship. Johns Hopkins University very recently conducted a study on the relationship between psychedelic and meditative states. It was quite interesting how they selected their participants. You had to be among one of those rare folk who had done intensive meditation practice for at least ten years while also never having taken psychedelics before. I don’t think they’ve published the results on that yet, but a slew of prepublication interviews have been done notably on the Buddhist Geeks podcast.
My personal two cents as psychonaut and someone who has been sitting two hours a day plus 4 weeks on retreat every year for the last 16 years - be careful. I wouldn’t even attempt this unless you’ve been practicing diligently for at least a decade. You really have to be able to set a clear intention to get anything out of a trip - be it with a koan or object of insight. Until about the ten year mark, you really don’t have a good handle on how the insight process works. Without that background, you’re just going willynilly into it. You'll bounce around from state to state and never really glean anything useful.
More importantly, meditation is gentle. While it can lead to some seriously negative shit, it’s usually fairly easy to snap out of. With psychedelics, you’re strapped in for the duration. This could be 8, 10, or 12 hours with a drug like LSD.
Less sexily, psychedelics can lead to some really profound, heavenly experiences. These are among their greatest dangerous. It can give you the impression that any kind of practice that falls short of such supreme bliss isn’t real practice. That’s bullshit. The best practice is where you sweat like a mule grinding its way up the side of a mountain with no hope of ever reaching the top. Only meditation offers the opportunity for that kind of practice.
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