CAN LSD BE USED AS A HELP IN MEDITATION?
LSD can be used as a help,
but the help is very
dangerous; it is not so
easy. If you use a mantra,
even that can become
difficult to throw, but if
you use acid, LSD it will be
even more difficult to
throw.
The moment you are on
an LSD trip you are not in
control. Chemistry takes
control and you are not
the master, and once you
are not the master it is
difficult to regain that
position. The chemical is
not the slave now, you are
the slave. Now how to
control it is not going to
be your choice. Once you
take LSD as a help you are
making a slave of the
master and your whole
body chemistry will be
affected by it.
Your body will begin to
crave LSD. Now the
craving will not just be of
the mind as it is when you
get attached to a mantra.
When you use acid as a
help, the craving becomes
part of the body; the LSD
goes to the very cells of
the body. It changes them.
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Your inner chemical
structure becomes
different. Then all the
body cells begin to crave
acid and it will be difficult
to drop it.
LSD can be used to bring
you to meditation only if
your body has been
prepared for it. So if you
ask if it can be used in the
West, I will say that it is
not for the West at all. It
can be used only in the
East -- if the body is totally
prepared for it. Yoga has
used it, tantra has used it,
there are schools of tantra
and yoga that have used
LSD as a help, but then
they prepare your body
first. There is a long
process of purification of
the body. Your body
becomes so pure and you
become such a great
master of it that even
chemistry cannot become
your master now. So yoga
allows it, but in a very
specific way. First your
body must be purified
chemically. Then you will
be in such control of the
body that even your body
chemistry can be
controlled.
For example, there are
certain yogic exercises: if you
take poison, through a
particular yogic exercise you
can order your blood not to
mix with it and the poison
will pass through the body
and come out in the urine
without having mixed with
the blood at all. If you can do
this, if you can control your
body chemistry, then you
can use anything, because
you have remained the
master.
In tantra, particularly in
"leftist" tantra, they use
alcohol to help meditation. It
looks absurd; it is not. The
seeker will take alcohol in a
particular quantity and then
will try to be alert.
Consciousness must not be
lost. By and by the quantity
of alcohol will be raised, but
the consciousness must
remain alert. The person has
taken alcohol, it