Induced religious experience
Description
Methods common to many traditions are meditation and contemplation (not always easily distinguished) and chemical means of altering consciousness through drugs, although other means of inducing such an experience have included flagellation and torture. One account speaks of the brilliant light used by interrogators as having triggered an experience of peace, joy and absolute protection. Another speaks of LSD producing, beyond all opposites, a knowledge that all things were one, an experience described as certainty, unity, obviousness, satisfaction, realization of the ultimate, awareness, completeness, nothing mattering, "is-ness". Yet another speaks of God or essence "is" love. Common to these experiences is their lasting effect which stays through the years.