[ensonar]

Oh drugs are definitely a "short-cut". That doesn't mean that taking them is easy, and it doesn't mean that you can't learn anything from taking them. But they are only perhaps a way to crack through thick headed people, which most of us are. However, without someone who is truly experienced to guide us we are also mostly guiding oursleves through our own self reflection. So how much we actually learn is questionable, and depends VERY much on the individual who chooses to use them.

And of course, drugs of any sort do in fact damage the body. Not necessarily irreparable damage (depending on how much they've been used), but often drugs cause a depletion of energy that then has to be regained in one way or another.

If you have a strong belief in the need for saving and storing energy in order to sustain an intended shift of the assemblage point, you often will learn to save it in any way that you can. Depleting it through taking drugs or any other energy draining activity becomes a feeling of waste.

I believe that aiming for inner-silence is a much more useful and worthy effort.