> It may look very strange. The drugs are capable to give you a hallucinatory experience beyond the mundane world. That is the experience that is being searched through meditation.
I have never had hallucinations while meditating. Closest thing I would consider a hallucination is the so-called “entering the cavern” feeling, where some people (myself included) can pretty readily achieve a state where you have the vague bodily sensation that you’ve grown significantly in size, perhaps becoming like 10 times taller/bigger than you actually are. Trancelike states are barely a hallucination either.
Hallucination has absolutely nothing to do with meditation, nor have I ever treated meditation as an attempt to hallucinate. This article seems kind of ridiculous.
I've had hallucinations whilst meditating. Didn't really seek them out, but they randomly happened a couple times.
Furthermore, you have other extraordinary experiences, like for example feelings of universal love, that people seek out via drugs (ecstasy/MDMA) that can be found via meditation (esp. Metta/loving kindness).
I have never had hallucinations while meditating. Closest thing I would consider a hallucination is the so-called “entering the cavern” feeling, where some people (myself included) can pretty readily achieve a state where you have the vague bodily sensation that you’ve grown significantly in size, perhaps becoming like 10 times taller/bigger than you actually are. Trancelike states are barely a hallucination either.
Hallucination has absolutely nothing to do with meditation, nor have I ever treated meditation as an attempt to hallucinate. This article seems kind of ridiculous.