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Had drugs been prohibited around the time of Moses (1391 BC onward), there most probably wouldn’t have been any of the 10 Commandments, a product of a psychedelic cocktail, according to an Israeli researcher. That Moses was tripping on ayahuasca atop Mt. Sinai was not illicit during those times. To this day ayahuasca is still used by shamans in rituals as a portal to divinity. I also get the impression that if one said “Mt. Sinai” during those times, it meant you were going on an psychedelic picnic.
Article 1: Moses was High on Drugs, Israel Researcher Says
Article 2. High on Mt. Sinai?
Drugs and Delusions
in Games and Aims, Chapter I of The Master Game
By Robert de Ropp
Because teachers are so hard to find in the West, many who wish to play the Master Game try to become their own teachers and invent their own rules. As a result, they play the game in ways which cannot possibly give right results. The commonest example of this attempt to play the Master Game by an unlawful set of rules is provided by the so-called psychedelic movement, of which the high priest, in the U.S.A. at present, is that intrepid psychologist, Dr. Timothy Leary. This particular aspect of the game is played with great enthusiasm by young people who find the accepted brands of religion devoid of nourishment and who seek in “the drug experience” satisfaction of their hunger for higher states of consciousness.
Because this “drug experience” approach to the Master Game is so popular, a good deal of prominence has been given to it in the present book. It is a blind alley, a cul de sac, a dead end, nevertheless its claims must be explored. One cannot appraise realistically any technique of altering consciousness unless one has had an opportunity to test it personally. Nor is it wise to generalize on the basis of one’s personal experience, for the saying of Hippocrates applies especially to the psychedelic drugs: one man’s meat is another man’s poison. The prohibitive legislation now being enacted to prevent people from determining their own reactions to psychedelics strikes at one of the most fundamental of all liberties, means of his own choosing. The legislation, morever by endowing the psychedelics with an aura of the forbidden, actually encourages many young people to try them, purely as a gesture of rebellion against the tyranny of so-called authorities whom they instinctively suspect to represent an assembly of the spiritually dead.
When this writer states that the taking of psychedelics is not a lawful way to play the Master Game, he speaks from his personal experience. He does not expect anyone to believe him without personally testing the correctness of the statement. An enlightened legislature would make such testing possible for people who feel this need to know more about their inner world. Instead of enacting prohibitions, they would provide proper facilities under which the psychedelic experience could be studied by any who wished to find out what it had to offer in the way of insights and illuminations. Such enlightened legislation would avoid the pitfall of making psychedelics more attractive to the rebellious by endowing them with the aura of the forbidden. It would prevent a lot of dangerous experimentation with inferior black-market materials, taken without proper supervision and under wrong conditions. It would be in keeping with those guarantees of freedom of religion which figure prominently in the Constitution, for it is clear that devotees of the psychedelic cult regard the drugs as pathways to religious experience. Even the poor persecuted American Indian has been allowed by all-powerful whites to use peyote for religious purposes. If the Indian is allowed to use peyote, why forbid the non-Indian to use LSD or hashish?
None of which alters the fact that the Master Game, which involves the awakening of the powers latent in man, can no more be played by swallowing a pill than can a difficult mountain peak be ascended by sitting in an armchair drinking beer and indulging in daydreams. If the spiritual heights could be ascended by taking psychedelics, then both the Sufis of Islam and the yogis of India would long ago have discovered the fact, for the subtlest and most “spiritual” of all psychedelics (hashish) has been available in the East for centuries. But neither in the works on yoga nor in the writings of the Sufis does one find the taking of hashish described as a pathway to liberation. The Sufis sing the praises of wine (forbidden by the Prophet Mohammed), but the wine to which they refer is a very special brew, the product of an inward ferment, the result of great effort and inner work. As for the yogis, they put their trust in intensive and prolonged practices designed to awaken the latent forces in man.
Of this more later. Here it is sufficient to say that the Master Game can never be made easy to play. It demands all that a man has, all his feelings, all his thoughts, his entire resources, physical and spiritual. If he tries to play it in a halfhearted way or tries to get results by unlawful means, he runs the risk of destroying his own potential. For this reason it is better not to embark on the game at all than to play it halfheartedly.
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