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An 8 page discussion of the traditional use of hallucinogenic drugs to bring traditional cultures in contact with their spirit guides and to heighten awareness of past lives and reincarnation. This paper presents the contention that, outside of the traditional framework which spawned such use, hallucinogenic drugs are useless in meeting this goal and can even present a significant danger for non-traditional individuals. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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touch with the spiritual world which exists all around them, even to heighten ones self awareness about past lives and reincarnation. Today such use is often attributed to the
New Age culture. In reality, however, mankind has recognized for hundreds if not thousands of years that drugs can have a variety of effects on human physiology, both in
terms of physical effects and in terms of mental effects. Well before the "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" era of the 1960s there was some interest in the
use of hallucinogenic drugs as a tool for revealing ones subconscious and bringing one into contact with their spiritual guides for the purposes of heightening ones self awareness about past
lives and reincarnation. This movement has waned and escalated over the years since the 1960s but it has never died out completely. Far too many people in non-traditional
cultures see hallucinogenic drugs as some magic key that will allow them to have experiences which are attributed to so-perceived "noble savages". The intent of this paper is to
present the contention that in the absence of the traditional culture which spawned the traditional use of hallucinogenic drugs, these drugs are useless in allowing any type of spiritual connection,
useless in allowing a non-traditional person to connect with their spiritual guide and useless in heightening self awareness about past lives and reincarnation.
While the height of the popularity of hallucinogenic drugs was reached during the 1960s, the interest in using hallucinogenic drugs to lessen the difference between the physical and spiritual worlds
would never entirely disappear during and in the years following the 1960s. Synthetic drugs such as LSD and various derivatives of cocaine and many others joined the world of
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