Why are a lot of people who smoke marijuana/do psychedelics atheists?

[foodsy]

Simply because we don't believe in a theistic being doesn't mean we're unable to feel one with ourselves or nature. That's why psychedelic use in general is also very personal, because it's not only spiritual enlightenment, but intellectual enlightenment and emotional discoveries. I don't need to believe in a deity in order to learn something from an insight or revelation, it simply occurs.

Exactly. I don't get why people think everything is tied to some deity, that is scientifically impossible and logically implausible.

Spirituality is wholly separate from a god or higher power. They are two absolutely different things. Spirituality deals with an inner-self (Or your conscious and subconscious). A God or higher power is an unconnected deity. To reiterate, all a god or higher power is, is an unconnected, unrelated deity. Buddhist monks are technically atheists, but they have a STRONG sense of spirituality.

foodsy Reviewed by foodsy on 12-16-2007. Why are a lot of people who smoke marijuana/do psychedelics atheists? This has always bothered me, as I consider my work with marijuana and psychedelics a very real personal, spiritual and intellectual transformative process. It has me much more lucid about the realms of perception, the nature of the universe and the creation behind it (God). Why do people like myself feel the presence of the ultimate oneness which is God and some issue a blind eye to it and do not feel the same way? I am ever so certain that there is consciousness, energy and a life after our Rating: 5