This Is Your Priest on Drugs

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3. It's a very long article

The experiences of the participants seem like to have been of spiritual renewal, not leaving their various faith traditions. It's as though their ministry and understanding have been enlivened.

Moved from a an academic mind to an experiential one.

I'm not sure I'm relating this correctly. But the idea of using mind altering substances to open spirituality is both ancient and modern.

Oh and Fr Priest, an Episcopal priest was changed in positive ways.

On subject in particular, a Byzantine priest who hated the Divine Liturgy found that disdain melting away. The Liturgy came alive to him, not dead ritual.

I do get a sense that like in the late 60s early 70s when psychedelic drugs widely used, that the participants are driven to proselytize. Quite a few of my friends in that earlier era were on a mission from God extolling the virtues of LSD and psyllium.

Best I can do.