opiates and spiritual experiences?

[Forthesevenlakes]

great story! that is the kind of thing swim was wondering about. the experience of the lab rat sounds somewhat like an intense self scrutiny during an MDMA roll or a shroom trip, especially the part about God talking to him, and realizing he should change his life. SWIM would love to one day take an fMRI scan of people this has happened to while they are given a dose of opiates, and see if certain areas of the temporal lobe are more responsive to opiate doses than users who have not experienced such a thing. of course, maybe the user's prior psychedelic experiences could play a role also, in that it could prime them to be more receptive of spiritual phenomena than people who have not had a previous psychedelic experience.

thanks so much for that input. anyone else??

p.s. swim would love to repeat the experience..actually he has had a similar one while sober, but thats a whole other thread!