I started doing drugs in college and I feel that they help me cope with the stress of my everyday life, and even seem to increase my creativity. I am aware that they do damage to my body, and I intend to quit eventually, but my life is pretty stressful, and I keep coming back to drugs to just unwind. Do you have any experience with drugs? Can meditation replace them or help quit?

We all want expanded consciousness and bliss. It’s natural, human desire. And a lot of people look for it in drugs. But the problem is that the body, the physiology, takes a hard hit on drugs. Drugs injure the nervous system, so they just make it harder to get those experiences on your own.

I have smoked marijuana, but I no longer do. I went to art school in the 1960s, so you can imagine what was going on. Yet my friends were the ones who said: “No, no, no, David, don’t you take those drugs.” I was pretty lucky.

Besides, far more profound experiences are available naturally. When your consciousness starts expanding, those experiences are there. All those things can be seen. It’s just a matter of expanding that ball of consciousness. And the ball of consciousness can expand to be infinite and unbounded. It’s totality. You can have totality. So all those experiences are there for you, without the side effects of drugs.

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