Hi Jay Michaelson,

A Burner friend of mine did mention you years ago and I have looked at your website on and off over the years.

In my mind unitary and the multiple/dualistic Kabbalistic worldviews are, as you said, "two sides of the same ineffable unity", as one early Kabbalistic work explains: "and all these rivers and tributaries are one river, one water flowing in them" - or something like that.

The point i'd like to make is that, when you truly experience non-duality, the ONEness of ALL Existence, and completely loose your sense of self, bittul ha metzius, whatever it is that you are left with, not experiencing or experiencing, within God and as a mini God, gives you the permission to be, united and individual, oscillating between being and non-being, microcosm and macrocosm, ultimately everything is an expression of the divine, everything can be used to help us to reveal / realise this divinity within our consciousness.

Drugs are godly, however not everything godly is good for us.

From the Divine perspective life and death are equal - but as mini gods, as miniature refractions of the great unknown, our ability to do this is limited, and in fact arguably God might want us to "choose life" -

I personally don't think that drugs are the answer, the human mind can, if it is trained, produce more interesting drugs, insights, ecstasy, bliss, visions, than any plant or pharmaceutical company.

So although in theory i have no problem with drug taking as a part of divine service - i think most people are slightly self-destructive and not able to truly put the lights of tohu into the vessels of tikkun.

Ultimately each one of us is responsible for our own personal redemption, each one of us our own judge, but personal redemption if it is to be complete must continue on to include other people, to find and discover the divine within them, not a drug induced 'love' - but a deep down heart felt warmth and love for all existence.

So that deep-ecology become deep-humanity - it is in our experience of duality that the greatest revelation of God's Essence takes place!

Drug use is a part of almost all spiritual traditions, even the non-dualistic - but the question we must ask ourselves - is this an honest celebration of life, or an excuse for not taking the long - internal road towards enlightenment and personal development?