Meditated While High Made Me Quit Weed

[Elena]

So, that happened maybe a year and a half ago, I had been on a yoga retreat a few weeks prior and while I wasnt meditating daily I went to an one hour group meditation every week without fail. So, I had some experience and I wasnt a total meditation newbie that can easily get deluded. 

I smoked weed at the time and had a pretty high weed tolerance, and before the meditation my friend and I shared a blunt. The weed in it was not so much as to have any significant effects on me in a normal situation. The moment I sat down meditating I felt like I was pulled underwater, my meditative state was much deeper than it usually was. Nearing the end of the meditation I had this weird sensation where I was asking questions (but I wasnt at the same time, I knew that it was me who asked the questions but they came out of nowhere and I was just observing it) and getting answers (again I answered) The other `mes` told me that I should be really nice to my mom and then they started discussing a painting I had seen only once when i was visiting a friend some years ago. 

The conversation went like that 

-I dont know why she is keeping it, it has bad energy. the person who drew it is bad. 

-No, not bad, just confused. However when you look at his actions there is no difference. 

-If I were her I would throw it in the trash. 

-No, not in the trash, in the river.

 

I felt weird about it and decided to call her to ask her if everything is ok and a bit ashamed that she would decide I was crazy I told her the story. She was really creeped out because it turned out her friend who drew the painting for her had turned crazy and stalkerish in the last few months, the week before she threw the painting away and she was in the process of getting a restriction order as he had threatened to kill her boyfriend. I didnt know any of that and I have been only once in her apartment and I havent thought at all about that painting since then. Weird. But true. 

 

After that experience I never felt the way I felt before about weed, I still got lazy and hungry when I smoked but the pleasure, laughing euphoric part of the experience was gone and I went from smoking every other day to cold turkey for a couple of months without any difficulty. 

 

 

[How to be wise]

I guess weed is linked to psychedelics, so you could have had a mystical experience. Interesting...