Drugs cannot achieve "Spiritual Supramundane high levle of consciousness".
It will cause irreparable damages to the human who consume it.
ricky l
9 seconds ago
The damages could be both physical and mental.
scott
5 hours ago
Science studies call a BIG BS on your opinion! Maybe some study would open your closed mind!
ricky l
9 seconds ago
A psychedelic drug is a medication whose primary action is to alter cognition andperception, typically by agonising serotonin receptors,[2] causing altered perceptions, and visual and/or auditory hallucinations. Major psychedelic drugs include LSD, mescaline andpeyote.
Not to be confused with psychoactive drugs, such as stimulants and opioids, which induce states of altered consciousness, psychedelics tend to affect the mind in ways that result in the experience being qualitatively different from those of ordinary consciousness. Whereas stimulants cause an energized feeling and opiates produce a dreamy, relaxed state, the psychedelic experience is often compared to non-ordinary forms of consciousness such as trance, meditation, yoga, religious ecstasy, dreaming and evennear-death experiences. With a few exceptions, most psychedelic drugs fall into one of the three following families of chemical compounds; tryptamines, phenethylamines, andlysergamides.
Many psychedelic drugs are illegal worldwide under the UN conventions unless used in a medical or religious context. Despite these regulations, recreational use of psychedelics is common.
ricky l
21 seconds ago
5th Universal Law of Precepts - specify "No consumption of Intoxicants" - include consuming drugs to achieve Meditative Enlightenment of Supramundane Nirvana is a myth.
Nirvana can only be attained by achievement of Equilibrium of all Enlightenment factors - that include Right Living, Right Concentration and Right Mindfulness. （戒， 定， 慧）
Drugs actually contradict the 3 Enlightenment factors - that lead to hallucination and not Enlightenment of Nirvana Fruition.
Thus Western World must be careful not to used banned illegal drugs to achieve Enlightenment - which in fact will harm human body and their mental states.
Enlightenment come from Meditation, not drugs.
ricky l
9 seconds ago
There are 3 outcome of Nirvana Fruition Enlightenment from Meditation :-
(1) No-Self (无我，大舍） (2) Universal Compassion （大慈大悲） (3) Panna Wisdom （般若智慧） Banned drugs will only cause hallucination and will not attain the above 3 outcomes. Don't take the wrong path. Mental wholesome outcome can only be mentally cultivated - not through the used of banned drugs. Don't go down the wrong path.
ricky l
20 seconds ago
Buddha meditate in a forest - to attain Supreme Enlightenment of Nirvana.
Jesus meditate under the coaching of 2 Arahats in Silk Road to attain Enlightenment.
Mohammad meditation in a cave to attain Enlightenment.
No one consume drugs to attain Enlightenment.
Tea K
15 minutes ago
Wow! Ricky boy,I was really very impressed by your most enlightening postings until this part "Jesus meditate under the coaching of 2 Arahats in silk Road to attain enlightenment" Hahahahaha.... LOL where in the world did you get that one bro? while you were tripping on hallucinates?
ricky l
20 seconds ago
JESUS IN INDIA; STUDENT OF EASTERN RELIGIONS?
The Untold Life of Jesus and his studies of Buddhism and Hinduism.
The research behind this hub comes from several sources, including the teaching of James Deardorf who is one of the worlds foremost Post-ascension scholars of Jesus, and of certain scrolls discovered by Russian scholar Nickolas Notovich in the Hemis Gumpa monastery. These collected works have some interesting evidence about Jesus living in India and studying Buddhism. It points out how Eastern his teachings are (especially the lost scrolls discovered in Nag Hammandi).
According to the facts compiled, after spending 6 years studying Judaism (age 12-18) he decided to travel, taking the famous Silk Road to India (He could have made the trip in one year). He may have had a very specific reason for making the trip.
Prior to this, according to the ancient Buddhist texts of Isa, there's a story of traveling Buddhists finding a child Lama on a trip to Palestine. The Three Wise Men (Who are unidentified in the bible) may have been these travelers and may have set the stage for Jesus' eventual trip to East, or may in fact have returned to find him when he reached manhood, to take him back and teach him.
He reportedly spent time in Tibet where he studied Buddhism. Later at Jagganath, the Temple of Krishna in Kashmir he studied Hindu. After 12 years immersed in Eastern religion, he returned to the land of his birth on his crusade to educate and unite the tribes of Israel, where he spent three years preaching his very Eastern philosophy, which lead to his crucifixion.
Psychedelic drug
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Synthetic mescaline. Normally biosynthesized from peyote and some other cacti.[citation needed] Mescaline was the first psychedelic compound to be extracted and isolated.[1]
Not to be confused with psychoactive drugs, such as stimulants and opioids, which induce states of altered consciousness, psychedelics tend to affect the mind in ways that result in the experience being qualitatively different from those of ordinary consciousness. Whereas stimulants cause an energized feeling and opiates produce a dreamy, relaxed state, the psychedelic experience is often compared to non-ordinary forms of consciousness such as trance, meditation, yoga, religious ecstasy, dreaming and evennear-death experiences. With a few exceptions, most psychedelic drugs fall into one of the three following families of chemical compounds; tryptamines, phenethylamines, andlysergamides.
Many psychedelic drugs are illegal worldwide under the UN conventions unless used in a medical or religious context. Despite these regulations, recreational use of psychedelics is common.
Psychedelic drugs found to induce higher level of consciousness - study
The image on the right shows how active the brain is when taking LSD - IMPERIAL COLLEGE
A new study has found evidence that taking psychedelic drugs can different levels of consciousness.
Researchers used brain imaging technology to study the effects experienced by volunteers who'd been given either LSD, ketamine or psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms.
On measuring the magnetic fields produced in the brain scientists found that, across all three drugs, the neural signal diversity was reliably higher.
“This finding shows that the brain-on-psychedelics behaves very differently from normal,” said Professor Anil Seth, co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex, who led the research.
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Brain activity in volunteers on psilocybin, ketamine and LSD, with the areas in red indicating higher-than-normal levels of random brain activity. Credit: Suresh Muthukumaraswamy
“During the psychedelic state, the electrical activity of the brain is less predictable and less ‘integrated’ than during normal conscious wakefulness – as measured by global signal diversity.
“Since this measure has already shown its value as a measure of ‘conscious level’, we can say that the psychedelic state appears as a higher ‘level’ of consciousness than normal, but only with respect to this specific mathematical measure.”
The study was published in Nature Scientific Reports.
Dr Suresh Muthukumaraswamy, from the University of Auckland, who was involved in the studies' preliminary stages, said: “That similar changes in signal diversity were found for all three drugs, despite their quite different pharmacology, is both very striking and also reassuring that the results are robust and repeatable.”
Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, from the Department of Medicine at Imperial, said: “Rigorous research into psychedelics is gaining increasing attention, not least because of the therapeutic potential that these drugs may have when used sensibly and under medical supervision.
“The present study’s findings help us understand what happens in people’s brains when they experience an expansion of their consciousness under psychedelics.
"People often say they experience insight under these drugs – and when this occurs in a therapeutic context, it can predict positive outcomes. The present findings may help us understand how this can happen.”
“People tend to associate phrases like ‘a higher state of consciousness’ with hippy speak and mystical nonsense. This is potentially the beginning of the demystification, showing its physiological and biological underpinnings,” he added, telling the Guardian: “Maybe this is a neural signature of the mind opening.”
People who have taken psychedelic drugs often attest to experiencing deep insight into their state of being. Now, researchers may have proven for the first time that these drugs can and do actually place those who take them into a higher state of consciousness.
Published in the journal Scientific Reports, the study has found that those who have taken LSD, ketamine, or psilocybin (the active compound found in magic mushrooms) seem to have increased neural signal diversity.
“The present study's findings help us understand what happens in people's brains when they experience an expansion of their consciousness under psychedelics,” says co-author Dr Robin Cahart-Harris in a statement. “People often say they experience insight under these drugs – and when this occurs in a therapeutic context, it can predict positive outcomes.”
One way in which neuroscientists measure consciousness is to look at something called neural signal diversity. This assesses how complex a brain’s activity is at any given time and provides a mathematical index of the level of consciousness. For example, a waking brain has more diverse neural activity than a sleeping one, which means it has a higher state of consciousness.
When the researchers from the University of Sussex and Imperial College, London, looked at the neural signal diversity of volunteers given one of the three different psychedelic drugs, they found something surprising. The brain signal diversity was higher in those who had taken the drugs compared to a baseline of someone who is simply awake and aware, suggesting that they have a heightened sense of consciousness.
“During the psychedelic state, the electrical activity of the brain is less predictable and less ‘integrated’ than during normal conscious wakefulness – as measured by ‘global signal diversity,’” explains Professor Anil Seth, from the University of Sussex. “Since this measure has already shown its value as a measure of ‘conscious level’, we can say that the psychedelic state appears as a higher ‘level’ of consciousness than normal – but only with respect to this specific mathematical measure.”
This does not, the researchers point out, mean that those taking these drugs have a “better” or more advanced state of consciousness than those who are not taking it, but it does raise some interesting questions. One of these is that while all three drugs analyzed are psychedelic, all three work in different ways, which actually lends support to the fact that the results are fairly reliable.
It has been posited before that the controlled use of such substances could be used to treat conditions such as depression. It is hoped that what they have found out in this study may help inform how the drugs could be used in a medicinal context.
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