>> There is a reason the many eastern religions that were the inspiration for a lot of new age ideas forbid drugs and alcohol. That's taking a very narrow poin

>> There is a reason the many eastern religions that were the inspiration for a lot of new age ideas forbid drugs and alcohol. That's taking a very narrow point of view on the subject. While modern, mainstream, orthodox eastern religions forbid drugs and alcohol the traditions that inform them used a wide array of tools to reveal and tune the instruments of perception. A man with a broken leg benefits from a crutch until the bone heals.