Spirituality and Drugs

The use of drugs is probably one of the most effective methods of achieving intense spiritual experience. In some cultures the use of drugs derived from local plants is part of their shamanistic practice.

Recreational drugs in the west have also been found to create spiritual experience outside of religion.

The existence of spiritual experience through music, dance, visual art and drugs all tends to support the notion that spirituality can be induced by specific physical conditions, i.e. brain activity induced by direct chemical stimulation or by a combination of physical and mental behavior that leads to natural chemical activity in the brain.