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Originally Posted by EMMAh
You take them to get a result, like you do with all other drugs.
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the result it entirely different however, which can affect this. For example, I take Holy Communion, which is bread and wine, but through my belief, intention and prayer it is no longer wine at all, but the actual blood and body of my God Jesus Christ. It is no longer the intoxicating/drug beverage made from grapes, it is human/divine blood, actual blood, not symbolic, and this I believe with sincere conviction.
The mushrooms are the same, though they may technically get you intoxicated like Communion Wine, the belief and intention of their use shifts the defining of what they are. After all, I do not take Communion to get the drug affects of the alcohol that I am consuming at the time.
[and on a side, sonic youth moment note, when we take communion we chant "Ineffible Ineffible Ineffible Holy Trinity...' and no matter what, always, for three years now! i hear in my head hear kim sing "ineffible.."]