There are initiations that use drugs, and I think they are effective. It creates the personality anew and detaches you from the old you, in the way that an initiation that doesn't use drugs does in a much slower and equally effective. The shamans used drugs extensively, and they were sort of the foundation of all this stuff. As for drugs doing workings, I don't usually do it, maybe a little wine, maybe some absinthe when I'm doing automatic writing. I've got to watch this stuff though, I could end up really crazy. I try to moderate on the side of asceticism, and don't always succeed.
This post has been edited by sithhunter: Nov 6 2006, 12:45 AM
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You enter into the gibbering madness, the attack of alien forces so bizarre and profane that it stains your soul, and you exit into the next world a stronger man.
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