define spiritual use of cannabis?

Question

cant i be curious? damn people

Answer 1

Same as bread and wine. Mexican and Southwest Indians use peyote as a sacrament why not pot. Altered states have historically been associated with spiritual experiences and communing with the gods.

Answer 2

considering your handle, I doubt seriously if you plan to use it that way. However, for those who are curious about such things, historically speaking many Shamans and wise people have looked to natural substances to help them release the mundane world and build a bridge between here and the eternal Powers. Persians are one example who looked to Soma, a specially prepared beverage only available to the Priests and often used in divination. The oracle at Delphi is another.

Considering current legal situations, I'd readily suggest you not try to use cannabis for anything then try to wiggle out of it legally by claiming it's your "religion" -- unless you've been practicing very specific paths for a while, and can prove it, it ain't gonna float.

PS to AuntB - I have no idea where you got the idea that this plant has any particular connection to Wicca other than with certain individual's perceptions. As a practitioner of 20 years, I assure you that your description is something I've NEVER heard once. It's fine if that's what YOU or your group calls it, but to say that's true in all of Wicca is a vast misrepresentation IMO

Answer 3

Don't know about cannabis. This is about psilocybin mushrooms.

A recent scientific study was reported by Johns Hopkins Medical School:

The study volunteers had an average age of 46, had never used hallucinogens, and participated to some degree in religious or spiritual activities such as prayer, meditation, discussion groups or religious services. Each tried psilocybin during one visit to the lab and the stimulant methylphenidate (better known as Ritalin) on one or two other visits. Only six of the volunteers knew when they were getting psilocybin.

Each visit lasted eight hours. The volunteers lay on a couch in a living-room-like setting, wearing an eye mask and listening to classical music. They were encouraged to focus their attention inward.

Psilocybin's effects lasted for up to six hours, Griffiths said. Twenty-two of the 36 volunteers reported having a "complete" mystical experience, compared with four of those getting methylphenidate.

That experience included such things as a sense of pure awareness and a merging with ultimate reality, a transcendence of time and space, a feeling of sacredness or awe, and deeply felt positive mood like joy, peace and love. People say "they can't possibly put it into words," Griffiths said

Answer 4

as a results of fact, for my section, modern authoritarian religions are no longer the answer to the mysteries of the universe. they have become absent of having an open, organic and direct touch with the extra desirable nature of issues in determination of scaring or ordering human beings into appearing a definite way. human beings can locate spirituality with the aid of an entire host of issues. From a portray to a flower to a gravel or dirt. in case you ever journey something which makes you understand (or experience) that life isn't all obvious and textile and that possibly there is a few thing extra, you should stick to it. there are various hippies from the 60s who gave up all drugs and rather talk approximately meditation to grant them the studies with out any exterior issues giving them that connection. i'm no longer that developed yet yet i'd decide to be. think of tripping on the techniques of the universe from in simple terms your guy or woman inner some thing or different! in case you're fortunate sufficient to have a veil or concept bumped off with the aid of any potential, i'd intently check out extra!

Answer 5

Using the cannabis to open the doors of perception in order to see within yourself.

You need a guide that will help for you to explore the inner reaches of who and what you are, as opposed to rolling a spliff and getting wrecked.

Answer 6

Any substance that alters your mental state/perception *could* be used in conjunction with "spiritual" practices like meditation, etc. to aid in reaching altered states on conciousness/becoming "one" with the universe", astral projection, etc. See the movie Altered States for a very scary example of this.

Answer 7

In Wicca, it is "the five-fold leaf for power," although in fact it usually has a seven-fold leaf. It represents the pentagram, which in turn represents fire, water, air, earth and spirit. It is sometimes smoked at rituals to enhance the religious experience.

Answer 8

Smoking dope in an attempt to resurrect the spirit of Bob Marley.

Answer 9

Ever beeeen to tha Islands mon?

Answer 10

Anytime we focus on anything found in nature , and we give thanks to or for it and we use and charish it than it is a spiritual experience ....holy water.....bitter herbs.......blood....even spoken prayer....but drug abuse knows no boundries no matter how you cut it , a drug is a drug from caffeine to morphine a user is a user none any better than the other.