Microdes spirituality: how daily attachments connect us to the divine
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During the revision of literature on the social sciences in collaboration with my next book, “God was right: How Modern Social Science demonstrates the Torah is true”, I came across a strange research subgenre. It is in the use of hallucinogen for spiritual growth.
This practice often happens to festivals (such as Burning Man), but also elsewhere, and not only on annual occasions. In fact, the practice of “microdosage” frequently has people who take “small” doses of psychedelic substances. An important purpose of this practice is to allow people to have “spiritual” experiences.
It is popular. According to a 2022 study at Columbia University (using the 2019 data), 5.5 million Americans use hallucinogens per year. This number is certainly greater now, above all given the significant number of popular television programs that now celebrate the use of psychedelics and which are legal in some states.
The Torah desires Us to the spirituality of microdose-traverses the correct conception of our activities throughout the day/daily. (Fox)
What would you do The Torah – which, of course, has a lot to transmit on spirituality (often indicated as “holiness”) – to say about this practice?
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The first answer comes from Deuteronomy 4: 9, where we are asked to “protect ourselves very well”. This is an imperative to be healthy. The use of hallucinogen is certainly not so.
Numerous studies have shown that “bad trips” are common – with often serious results. These include self -harm, damage others, paranoia, fear, anxiety, convulsions, convulsions, alienation from loved ones and flashbacks that can occur at any time in the future.
Second Answer from Torah It can be collected by an improbable source: numbers 6, in which God speaks with Moses of people who choose to take “a nazirite abstinence vote”.
One who takes a vote of Nazarite, explains the text, arises from a variety of things: drinking wine, shaving and approaching a dead person (including parents and brothers). It is the ascetic par excellence. At the end of this period, he must bring a sin to the temple. The offer of sin indicates that the person who took the vote of abstinence did something wrong.
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What could be? It seems, the same thing that hallucinogen users do. Seek spirituality from detachment from the world. Nazarite does so by remaining in society, but by prohibiting himself otherwise admissible things, in order to achieve a greater sense of spirituality. The hallucinogenic user still goes further and detaches himself from the world taking substances whose entire purpose is to transport it to another plane.
What is the problem with this? Once again, the The Torah has the answer. In exodus 25: 8, God tells the former Jewish slaves just freed to build a sanctuary. The formulation of its command is deeply instructive. God says: “He will make a sanctuary for me – so that I can live among them …” not, as we could expect, “lives in it” – but “residence with each other”.
God is teaching us that he wants to dwell – he wants that spirituality be identified and experienced – among people, in the real world of daily activities.
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This message is strengthened throughout the Torah. In exodus 31: 5, God fills the artisan Betzalel of “divine” spirit to make his labors – showing that stonecuting, woodworking and weaving can be sacred activity.
Several times, the Torah is clear: we do not find God or reach the spiritual heights detachment from the world. (Istock)
In Levitico 19, God emits a lot Ethical principles and moral laws (How not to curse the deaf, placing a block stumbled in front of the blind and gossip). It focuses everyone saying “I am hashem” – showing that our daily interactions are spiritually important.
In Deuteronomy 14:23, God tells the people to “decide the harvest of your plantation” and then “Eating first of Hashem” – showing that the simple act of eating after giving is a moment for the spiritual celebration. And in exodus and Deuteronomy, we are commanded to “sanctify on Saturday” – teaching us that we can create a day of spiritual size every week.
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Several times, the The Torah is clear: We do not find God or reach the spiritual heights from detachment from the world. We do it Attack in the world. The Torah desires Us to the spirituality of microdose-traverses the correct conception of our activities throughout the day/daily. If we see every action, meal, conversation, decision and interaction as an opportunity to do something saint – A, as Levitician 19: 2 instructs, “To be Holy ” – our days will be full of profound spiritual experiences.
And we will experiment with these spiritual greatest frequently, reliablely, in a safe way of any drug micro -body and we will enjoy the social joys and benefits that evasion cannot experience.
