Hi SoSick. Thanks for your feedback and insight into your own personal perspective. Could I please ask that you not misquote me in future posts though? I'll make certain I never do it when we're discussing. I know we all just want to get our own individual points across and that ultimately we all respect one another's viewpoints, however different. Thanks so much!

Blessed be.

On the topic of illegal narcotics taken for the purpose of recreation I can speak only against these acts - these pursuits will never bring spiritual attunement. Taking drugs sanctioned by the government for tribes' shamanic and religious purposes is an entirely different story however. The trouble with laymen interested in following spiritual pursuits, be they witchcraft, such as in my faith, or shamanism, etc., is that they absolutely demand a mentor. You won't find what you're looking for if you want quick results or think the answer is lying in some new age bookstore. It can take years of questing to find what one hopes to attain, just as in SoSick's example above, it has taken her years of questing to find her god.