Hello Kevin –

My apologies!  I responded more or less to your last question in your initial post:  “Am I wrong in thinking that it is not productive to take drugs?”…thus, my response.  Thanks for your patience in reading through all that.

About the spirituality without drugs and being out of touch with society…I’m not shocked that a spiritual group would use drugs to get an instant high and equate that with a spiritual awakening.  But when it comes to drugs, I think most people will find a way to justify its use.  Placing it in the spiritual awakening category might be what makes the user feel he or she is not “abusing” drugs, just heightening their spiritual awareness.

Airene