Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

For Thelemites, availability of psychedelic therapies for mental health and religious experience is a fundamental concern. Aleister Crowley, founder of the religious philosophy of Thelema, once suggested that religious experience and ecstatic spiritual bliss could be a physiological phenomenon that can be reproduced. As he wrote:

"I believe ‘Attainment’ to be a simple supreme sane state of the human brain."

Crowley was a pioneer in applying scientific principles to religious studies (particularly the religious experience), including but not limited to his developments in yoga and magick. He said that the religious experience is similar to other phenomenological experiences and may therefore be open to scientific analysis. He proposed that religious experience may be caused by specific neurochemical changes. To wit:

“Now, Samadhi, whatever it is, is at least a state of mind exactly as are deep thought, anger, sleep, intoxication and melancholia. Very good. Any state of mind is accompanied by corresponding states of the body. … we already know that certain spiritual or mental conditions may be induced by acting on physico- and chemico-physiological conditions. For instance, we can make a man hilarious, angry or what not by giving him whisky. We can induce sleep by administering such drugs as veronal. We can even give him the courage of anaesthesia (if we want him to go over the top) by means of ether, cocaine and so on. We can produce fantastic dreams by hashish, hallucinations of colour by anhalonium lewinii; we can even make him ‘see stars’ by the use of a sandbag. Why then should we not be able to devise some pharmaceutical, electrical or surgical method of inducing Samadhi; create genius as simply as we do other kinds of specific excitement? Morphine makes men holy and happy in a negative way; why should there not be some drug which will produce the positive equivalent?” — The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: an Autohagiography, Chapter 48

As it is written in the holy text of Thelemites, Liber AL vel Legis: The Book of the Law:

"I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this."

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Love is the law, love under will.



