Hi Ron, My personal observation by working on myself and with others is that we have everything inside ourselves in order to stimulate our natural spiritual evolution. It can be done by close internal observation through meditation and our daily interactions. There is a natural way of being which is under the surface of identity and distortion - we have merely to peel the layers away in order to get to the truth about ourselves. Speaking about 'soft' drugs such as sugar and caffeine, my observation is that they shift ones perception from the centre that you are. In addition, their side effects are continually shifting - you have to take more to get the same stimulus. The evidence we've observed at Openhand is that they clearly limit people from finding their truth. Personally, I just cannot see the point. Such drugs have done so much to limit and constrain people. Why would you want to keep on taking them?