I heard a discussion a while ago between Jordan Peterson and Bishop Robert Barron that touched on psychedelics and mysticism.
Bishop Barron basically suggested that a psychedelic trip might be akin to a mystical experience, but without the framework of religious values, and the discipline of fasting and prayer, we have a harder time making sense of it.
Well, it's like sleeping with a prostitute instead of your wife. For the clueless, it looks like the same thing, but one is just a mimic of the other and engaging in it too often will damage you
In both cases, it's the commitment that makes the difference.
St. Theresa, for instance, had crazy mystical experiences, but it went hand in hand with her deepening commitment to Our Lord.
Man, wait till we do the Theresa reading club with #Alexandria. She's so awesome.
Can't get over how much we share a writing style.
Have you ever tried a psychedelic?
Nope.
Everyone single experience is different. Religion is completely irrelevant when trying a psychedelic.
That's what I've heard.
I was talking about how psychedelic experiences seem to share some commonalities with the experiences of religious mystics. Perhaps psychedelic experiences are all so different because they don't necessarily take place within the framework of spiritual devotion.
They are similar, but not the same.
Trying certain psychedelics activates the part of the cerebral hemispheres that conduct memory. Those random memories become imbued with everything you see and do. Religion has nothing to do with it.
What drove the Bishop to make such a comparison?
