Thank you for the response. What you said really makes a lot of sense, and it's a perspective I hadn't considered.
But that leads me to a new question, following your logic. If mushrooms can bring some benefits and act as a catalyst to reveal something already within us, would it be possible to use them in conjunction with yoga?
I'm thinking of this not as a replacement, but as a tool to accelerate spiritual progress. For example, could someone with spiritual maturity and experience in yoga use smaller, controlled doses to facilitate emotional release or deepen their level of visualization?
Would this be a form of energy manipulation that, while not traditional, could be seen as a way to deepen our practice?
As someone that has used both cannabis and mushrooms before, it doesn't help at all. The issue is it can temporarily make it easier to "see" or "feel" which gives the impression of enhanced effect but it actually pretty drastically weakens the effect of any meditation.
There were times I could have sworn I did something massive magickly speaking either due to opening or empowering a chakra while high but the next day...nothing, no difference if anything I felt a bit weaker.
The only real possible benefit is I would say yes, sometimes shrooms can help with self-realization, but this is of a psychological nature not spiritual and the issue is it can and DOES just as easily lead to utterly false conclusions and false "realizations" and the true realizations can and will be reached through actual spiritual work and meditation.
This idea, its been done to death, tried and retried, it just doesn't work, there are no shortcuts and a lot of the people that tried this completely lost their fucking minds. People with enormous potential turned into human waste because they were chasing some notion of a stronger spirituality.
Drugs are ruled by Neptune that yes also rules the occult and spirituality but drugs are of its lowest octave and spirituality is of its highest, there is no path from the lowest octave to the highest, low octaves of planetary influence are by their nature traps to stop advancement, one must simply aim to the highest octave and stay there and when you mix octaves the lowest will always become dominant, this is the nature of entropy and how it actually manifests.
As for shamanistic practices involving drugs, they ultimately were the result of spiritually weaker people trying to fufill the role of spiritually stronger people, when a community needed spiritual guidance but their most spiritual person could simply not see such guidance, they would be "forced" to turn to these things to get some idea of what to do, although the resulting "visions" were often delusional and thus incorrect, we as Zevists do not have these limitations, we can advance so that we simply dont need these crutches.
Drugs are a slower path to success and an extremely quick path to failure.