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Those who use hashish (Indian hemp) as a means of obtaining temporary mystical glimpses really get hallucinatory experiences whose bringing on is helped by the temporary loss of memory. But these may be followed by a fall into sexual fantasies, since there is no real control of what is happening. It may be that clear inner experiences seem to present themselves, but this still does not do more than offer duplicates. Unless the danger is seen and the drug addiction abandoned, the man simply decreases the ability to open himself to genuine mystical experience.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 11 : Fanaticism, Money, Powers, Drugs > # 119