The aspirant at this stage is in the sixth plane of consciousness and "sees" God face to face in all His Glory. This aspirant experiences God's effulgence consciously and continually without a break. He experiences this without any fears of fluctuation in his continual and never-ending experiencing of "seeing" the Glory of God. Even this most sublime experience of "seeing" God face to face falls short of the only true experience — Union with God the Reality.
It is absolutely essential for a spiritual aspirant who genuinely longs for union with God — the Reality — to shun false practices of yogic postures and exercises, meditation on other than God the Beloved, experiments with the effects of certain drugs and fads for types of food. These things do not uplift the aspirant nor draw him out of the rut of illusion. Experiences born of these practices wear off no sooner the "aspirant" withdraws from or is thrown out of the orbit of the effect produced by the technique employed.
All so-called spiritual experiences generated by taking "mind-changing" drugs are superficial and add enormously to one's addiction to the deceptions of illusion, which is but the shadow of Reality.
The experience of a semblance of "freedom" that these drugs may temporarily give to one is in actuality a millstone round the aspirant's neck in his efforts toward emancipation from the rounds of birth and death!
It is good to know that there are drugs that alleviate human suffering, it is better to have a knowledge of a specific drug for a particular ailment, and it is best to put to use the specific drug for the benefit of a human body.
But there is no drug that can promote the aspirant's progress or ever alleviate the sufferings of separation from his Beloved God. Love is the only propeller and the only remedy. The aspirant should love God with all his heart until he forgets himself and recognizes his Beloved God in himself and others.
When you study the book God Speaks , you will understand how very impossible it is for an aspirant to realize God without the grace of the Perfect Master, and therefore, it is of paramount importance for a genuine spiritual aspirant to surrender himself to the Perfect Master, who has himself realized God.
As a result of this letter from Adi and further correspondence, Allan Cohen stopped using drugs and continued working toward his doctorate degree.