Gee, I wonder....Could it be because they mess with the mind?
2007-05-23 14:11:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You got it. Any artifically enhance mental capacity is suspect. One does not know if it is intellect speaking or the drugs.
2007-05-23 14:15:33 · answer #1 · answered by Sophist 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if I would call them "Keys" but they are helpful if you want to develop your understanding of the universe. My argument for this is that by experiencing a hallucinogenic state, you become aware of the fact that your senses are lying to you about what is actually happening around you. When you are no longer in a hallucinogenic state, the same fact remains that your senses are lying to you, but on a lesser scale. They lie to you so you can function; they patch the blind spot where your ocular nerves go towards the brain, they lie about visual sequential consistency, they lie about smells, etc.
In other words, they make you more able to realize you are a slave to your own senses and biases in how you filter and understand the world, which in turn gives you better perspective with which to understand the natural world.
2007-05-23 14:27:14 · answer #2 · answered by neuralzen 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They probably have fired off some unusual sequences of thoughts that have led to some new insight or 'inspirational' ways of looking at things.
But it's a lazy and possibly dangerous way to achieve something that can be constantly at the ready, if one invests time in training the mind.
Peace
2007-05-23 14:59:55 · answer #3 · answered by zingis 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They short circuit the neural synapses and damage the pathways used for valid thought and meditation. The mind is far more capable, with dicipline, of many of the things these substances only mimic.
2007-05-23 14:33:50 · answer #4 · answered by Fr. Al 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You got it. The key to the universe just might be the universe itself and how you tap into it. Read "The Power Of Intent".
2007-05-23 14:16:39 · answer #5 · answered by MMM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are great substances if you don't mind drug induced psychosis.
As they are altered states, they are substances which tamper with one's ability to perceive and one's connection to reality.
2007-05-23 15:17:56 · answer #6 · answered by guru 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they make life hazy. Haze is incompatible with truth.
2007-05-23 14:22:54 · answer #7 · answered by adrianne 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, the problem might be that if they gave you the answer you most likely wouldn't recognize it.
2007-05-23 14:17:25 · answer #8 · answered by fra_bob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋