In the previous post, we learned about schizophrenia, which is sometimes triggered by taking mind-altering drugs during teen years and young adulthood. We’ve also learned about the effect of pharmaceutical drugs on the physical body and the soul. Now we’ll take a look at how mind-altering drugs affect the soul. Are they needed or advocated for spiritual awakening? How do mind-altering drugs affect the soul?
What are mind-altering drugs?
A mind-altering (psychoactive, psychotropic) drug is any natural or synthetic chemical substance, that changes brain function and alters perception, mood, or consciousness. Many classes of drugs affect the central nervous system both physically and energetically:
- CNS depressants (e.g. alcohol, barbiturates, opioids, benzodiazepines)
- CNS stimulants (e.g. cocaine, amphetamine, caffeine, nicotine)
- Hallucinogens (e.g. LSD, psilocybin, peyote, ayahuasca, dissociatives)
Guy Needler said every drug affects our physicality in some way. But a particular drug may affect or damage one person more than another, depending on their natural resistance to it both physically and energetically.
How do mind-altering drugs affect the soul?
When people take these types of drugs, the energies within the gross physical body become so disharmonious to the soul, that it simply cannot stay in the body. The auric layers split open, and the soul ejects itself out of the body to a higher energetic level, according to Needler.
The effect on the physical body and the soul depends on the type of drug or combinations of drugs and doses taken. The aura is a natural protective energetic shield around the body, which is enhanced by meditation, but altered and torn by drug abuse (as shown below):
The more drugs are taken (without overdosing and dying), the more disharmonious the body, and the higher the soul gets thrown. Needler explained:
- A so-called “good trip” is where the soul is thrown to upper astral levels (frequency bands 6-7), where the entities or beings are more benign, loving and gracious.
- A “bad trip” is where the soul is thrown to lower astral levels (FB 4-5), where the soul has a lucid experience of the things and lower frequency astral entities that are less benign.
- When the alcohol or drugs wear off, the soul returns to the body. But the person may have a hangover (with headaches, lack of clear thinking, disturbing visualizations, etc.).
It takes three days to heal the auric layers, while the person is “detoxing” himself from a single drug exposure. That leaves all the energetic bodies vulnerable to attachment by astral entities (see What Are Sentient vs. Transient Astral Entities? – Big Picture Questions.com).
Are drugs necessary for mystical experiences?
Natural and synthetic mind-altering drugs have been used by people for millennia. But all these agents are a mechanical way to gain temporary access to an expanded perspective, according to Wendy Kennedy (“The Great Human Potential”). She explained:
- Any mind-altering drug is mind originated. Your 3D mind (like your body) is something you have, but it’s not who you are (see Where Do Human and Other Souls Come From? – Big Picture Questions.com).
- For example, psilocybin (in “mushrooms”) is like a “sledgehammer that throws you into selflessness,” because it deactivates the brain regions (default mode network) that deal with thinking about yourself, according to neuroscientist Judson Brewer, MD, PhD.
- The mind was set up as a filter to allow us to have a limited perspective of reality. Some people use drugs as an excuse to numb, not to feel or perceive things in the same way.
While these agents may serve as a stepping stone, a “peek experience” or a window into the nonphysical/energetic realms or higher states, they don’t really serve you in the long term.
- They can cause physical or psychological dependence, i.e. become a habit or a crutch.
- Psychoactive drugs can become a distraction/detour from your life plan, that was designed to interface with many other souls, and to learn about certain goals and challenges.
- Drugs can also become a form of “spiritual bypass,” if used to avoid facing our shadows. We can’t jump from shadows to higher frequencies without doing the work on ourselves.
We incarnated here to experience, learn and evolve from facing, resolving and healing certain emotional issues, psychological wounds and needs. We need to be grounded to do that and to fulfill our obligations in the physical world.
Are drugs advocated for spiritual awakening?
Guy Needler said the frequencies on Earth are now so high, that you no longer need to have a guru or do things like yoga to bring your frequencies up. When asked if he personally took or advocated taking drugs for spiritual development, his response was:
“I’ve always had an innate feeling that we can do what we want to do by pure meditation, so the answer to that question is no, I’ve never had the desire. I don’t advocate it. I don’t think it’s appropriate. It’s unnecessary as well. It’s a mechanical short cut, which ulti-mately results in us struggling to do it properly.
Now if people want to go down that route, they can do. I wouldn’t stop them. If they feel that they’re getting an appropriate level of response in terms of their journey, then that’s fine. But I would say it does stop you from progressing, because it’s basically a physical tool to try to achieve a metaphysical response.
There are different ways of doing it naturally (e.g. shamanism, meditation, kriya yoga). Psychotropics may become an unhealthy addiction or a crutch, when not used as a stepping stone but as the only method of getting there.
There are many roads to God, but all of them require dedication, devotion, and extreme focus on getting there really.
My way is based upon just raw devotion to getting from one place to another place, using that focus in a pure way to log into or tap into the underlying consciousness, which is our creator that created everything, which experiences everything.” – Guy Needler
“The roads to God are many and varied, but whatever road we take, we must make it our own. We must be persistent and patient and not enticed by the road of another, which may seem faster but actually isn’t.” – Neale Donald Walsch
Disclaimer: The medical information on this site is provided as an information resource only, and is not to be used or relied on for any diagnostic or treatment purposes. Please consult your health care provider before making any health care decisions about your condition.
For more information, please see:
Guy Needler: Home – Guy Steven Needler | The Dawn of a New Age of Science (new website) & 5 books: The History of God, Beyond the Source – Book 1, Beyond the Source – Book 2, Avoiding Karma, The Origin Speaks, 2015, The Anne Dialogues, 2016 & The Curators (in press)
What Is the Cause Of Addiction? – Big Picture Questions
Mingyur Rinpoche: Here’s How You Can Meditate Anytime, Anywhere
How Do Drugs Affect the Body and Soul? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is Spiritual Bypassing? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Are the Stages Of Spiritual Development? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Are Sentient vs. Transient Astral Entities? – Big Picture Questions.com
Where Do Human and Other Souls Come From? – Big Picture Questions.com
Are We Energetic Or Sentient Beings? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Happens To the Ego, Body and Soul When We Die? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is the Physical vs. Energetic Basis of Disease? – Big Picture Questions.com
Do We Still Need Gurus Today? – Big Picture Questions.com
Do We Need Our Chakras Or Not? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is Old and New About Meditation? – Big Picture Questions.com
How To Dissolve Your Victim Patterns? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is Your Life’s Work vs. Soul Purpose? – Big Picture Questions.com
How To Heal Anxiety and Fear? – Big Picture Questions.com
How To Quickly Heal Your Body and Energetic Templates? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is the Spiritual Basis Of Schizophrenia? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is the Spiritual Perspective On Physical and Mental Disability? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is the Spiritual Perspective On Suicide? – Big Picture Questions.com
How Does Meditation Help With Depression? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Are Sentient vs. Transient Astral Entities? – Big Picture Questions.com
Who Is Afraid of Hell, Astral Entities Or Possession? – Big Picture Questions.com
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Thanks for your comment that raises a number of important points that I’ll try to address here.
Re: Physical bodies – As Needler told us, ALL of the bodies that are here are manipulated in some way, shape or form by medicines, inoculations, operations, different dietary things, foods, supplements, etc. We can change our body energetically as well (e.g. reiki healing, energy template meditations, etc.). When facing a medical issue, how we choose to deal with is up to us (e.g. treat diabetes with conventional drugs, which doesn’t cure the disease OR take charge of your life and reverse diabetes with lifestyle modification OR do nothing and go to decrepitude). All is choice, just different choices leading to different life experiences (often played out by parallel selves, if the soul wants to explore those paths).
Re: Mind-altering drugs – I love what Ram Dass wrote in “Polishing the Mirror.” He was a teacher at Harvard in 1961 and felt he had a lot of knowledge, but lacked wisdom. After meeting Timothy Leary, he took psychedelic mushrooms, which “introduced him to his soul” and changed his view of reality. He was dismissed from Harvard, but continued using psychedelics for 5-6 years trying to stay in that place of enlightenment. He would get high and come down, touching that state but unable to stay there. He said: “I wanted to be free, not high.” He knew this method wasn’t working for him.
In retrospect, he realized that psychedelics are NOT necessary to the process of coming to your Self. He wrote: “They can show you a possibility, but once you’ve seen the possibility, to keep revisiting it again and again isn’t necessarily transformative.” As Alan Watts said: “Once you’ve gotten the message, hang up the phone.” Then finally you have to live in the world and keep transforming within. That’s when he left for India, met his guru (Maharaj-ji) and started his full-time spiritual quest (without drugs).
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I’d love to hear more, specifically about Marijuana. It’s one thing to talk about cocaine, or crack, or heroin… but it seems odd to lump marijuana in with these, without separating them.
Some of the most loving and kind hearted people in the world (Bob Marley, Carl Sagan, Sam Harris) have smoked weed (or did other drugs). Many people have had very successful lives smoking it. Weed has been known to help people with physical ailments.
So yeah there’s tons and tons of questions here. When we say drugs… so let’s say I need to have surgery, or I’ll die, and that requires certain drugs… should I just opt to not do the surgery? Or tell the doctor “hey doc I don’t need the drugs”… which I’m guessing in most cases they wouldn’t even allow?
I mean even Needler himself, when he talks about being able to do everything via pure meditation… needler is also a Reiki master, using things like Crystals. Even in his book he has talked about going to specific places to meditate. Some of those things do seem very mechanical and physical in nature.
I’d just like… like a lot, “lot” more discernment here. Does drugs mean I can’t take advil? Why does marijuana have health benefits if we weren’t meant to utilize it?