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| The Buddha in psychedelic colors DMT (and substances or practices that bring it out of the pineal gland) allow one to see the world as it really is undistorted by our mental defilements we accept as "normal" reality (progressivebuddhism). It's not a recreational activity. |
An
entheogen ("generating the divine within") is a substance or practice used in a
spiritual, religious,
shamanic, or sacred context that may be natural or human made.
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| Dope is not reinvention. |
Entheogens can supplement many diverse practices for
transcendence and
revelation (unveiling of a hidden truth), including
meditation,
yoga, some forms of
prayer,
psychedelic,
chanting, and
visionary art,
traditional medicine,
psychedelic therapy (such as the careful, controlled use of minute amounts of a "magic mushroom" like
psilocybin), and music including
peyote song and
psytrance, even
witchcraft (witch comes from the word wise),
magic, and
psychonautics.
Entheogens have been used in a
ritualized context for thousands of years. Their spiritual/religious significance is well established in anthropological and modern studies.
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| Deep in the mind during meditative absorption (jhana) a counterpart sign (nimitta) forms colored by mental defilements. This learning sign becomes the patibhaga sign. Exogenous drugs, even DMT, are not likely to help in this purification of consciousness. |
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| Buddha at Thiksey (Ragg Burns Imaging) |
Meditation leads to mindfulness and concentration, to
sati and
samadhi. A
nimitta is a mental representation, a sign of concentration. If one focuses on the breath as the object of meditation, eventually a light will form in the mind as the
sign of the breath; this is what one concentrates on to gain absorption. Middle Length discourse (MN) 44 tells us that one of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness is the
nimitta, which serves as the cause for the eventual elimination of the Five Hindrances (sensual desire, ill will, restlessness, sloth, skeptical doubt) and, beyond that, the arising of the five concomitant mental factors (
cetasikas) of the first absorption (
jhāna).
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| Himalayan novice must focus (Dietmar Temps) |
And according to AN 9.35, the
nimitta as the mental representation of the first absorption is the presence of these same five concomitant
jhāna factors. AN 9.35 states that this
nimitta is to be developed, pursued, and established. When properly engaged, these five factors work in concert to refine and maintain what DN 9 calls a "truly refined perception of joy and pleasure born of seclusion" (
viveka-ja-pīti-sukha-sukhu-ma-sacca-saññā).
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| The American Book of the Dead? |
Examples of traditional entheogens include
psychedelics like
peyote, psychedelic-
dissociatives like
ayahuasca (
daime, natema, spirit vine), and
Tabernanthe iboga (synthesized as ibogaine), atypical psychedelics like
Salvia divinorum, quasi-psychedelics like [CDB-rich]
cannabis and
Ipomoea tricolor,
deliriants like
Amanita muscaria (biblical fly agaric or "manna from heaven").
Traditionally a tea, admixture, or potion like
ayahuasca (a blend of an Amazonian vine, bark, and leafy plant) or
bhang (a cannabis drink) have been compounded through the work of a skilled shaman or apothecary.
With the advent of organic chemistry, there now exist many questionable synthesized pharmaceutical drugs with similar psychoactive properties. Many were originally derived from these plants but stripped of supporting elements to presumably get at the most "active" ingredient without the help of other ingredients nature combined as limiters, enhancers, and so on.
