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I’ll be danged. This is the first time I’ve heard of another LDS person gaining a testimony while on acid. This is from my introduction in June
Quote:While on LSD, I had a “bad trip”. I feared I was going permanently crazy and thought about how sad it would be when my parents would visit me in the loony bin and I would act like I were a glass of orange juice or something like that. I also had a terrifying revelation – I learned that death would not be an escape as I had always thought. I could not leave my mind and experiences behind. I somehow had to stay alive and improve my life. During that experience, I also realized all that I had learned in Primary and all that my parents had taught me about the Gospel is true.Yes, I gained a testimony while on acid!
I still believe my experience was from God, and I believe your’s was as well.People can have intense spiritual experiences without drugs. Drugs are a crutch, a short cut perhaps. Like most short cuts, they have their consequences. I also dabbled in drugs as a young person (including LSD). I have had profound and intense spiritual experiences, but all while stone-cold sober. I can understand the similarity between an “acid trip” and a vision. I think they are similar in ways, but also very different. So my answer: Yes. You had a drug-induced spiritual experience. That’s how God works. It doesn’t invalidate it, just qualifies it slightly. I personally believe there’s a wide, gray and fuzzy line between our imaginations and our “revelations.” I mean that seriously. I think that broad type of experience is exactly how God works, how prophets receive revelations, how seers receive divine inspiration. It can triggered/assisted by drugs. It is of a better quality when achieved through more organic means such as prayer, fasting and meditation.
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