we've been eating psilocybe mushrooms (a psychadelic that came before meditation) since THE DAAAWWWNN OF MAAANNN!! since WAY before we were conserned about transcendential meditation. primitive man couldnt even pronounce it.
Jack, every drug effects everybody differently, dont' be so sure you've experienced everything a substance has to offer just becuase you've done it a lot. I was skeptical when my friends told me they'd had spiritual experiences from alcohol because I've drank a lot and its never happened to me, but that doesn't make it less valid. Also I don't see how you can make the claim that a historical event (such as the discovery of psilocybin mushrooms) occured "before meditation" a state of mind, it just doesn't make any sense to me. Can't one argue that we were in a meditative state while in the womb? that women enter a transcedental state while giving birth? that sex is a transcedental experience in and of itself?
Quoted, beautiful way to put in. I had an amazing psilo experience last night. Most colorful and really intense. What you said is how i felt.