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Back in the early seventies one of the first things that caught
my attention in Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous was
the idea that in real-world mysticism, a person discovers they are
a chemical factory, of sorts, and they learn how to replenish the
gold inside themselves.
My own teacher said something of the same sort soon after I met
him: "Anything you experienced taking drugs," he told
me, "you will experience here without drugs, ... except
more so."
Now after all these years, I guess going-on-thirty years, I have
to tell you, anything you have experienced smoking marijuana, hashish,
opium, taking LSD, mescaline or sundry hallucinogens, shooting up
heroin, cocaine, or crystal methamphetamine, you can experience
in a real school, except more so. And it's more so, because certain
experiences in life can help you replenish substances in your body,
not simply consume them.
And all this lies (thankfully!) in the direction of "being
bad," as opposed to "being good."
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