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Why don't ZEN monks consume things like the plants and brews that the various shaman across the planet used so that they could become one with the universe?

>>9646200

Not to turn this into a drug thread, but this is pretty much one of the purposes of psychedelics in traditional shamanism. At the time they thought they were communicating with spirit guides or with nature or something along those lines, but what was happening is that psychedelics put you into an altered state of mind where you are more in touch with your subconscious than you normally are.

People who get unpleasant trips for example have a lot of repression or psychological issues that they need to sort through and these bad trips is the way that your subconscious mind illustrates and communicates the problems to you. Almost like a way of purging it from you. In a very real way psychedelics allow you to go one on one with your own mind and confront all of the problems lurking inside of there. The problems are now given a form and they're right there and assaulting you, so you can no longer bury them away and you have no choice but to confront them.