Does the verse of light describe an expanded state of consciousness?

This if anything would have been a kind of most likely would have been a psychoactive experience uh that would have had and he explains that I had with me this particular drink. Now you see this is where I people would say no that would just be him communicating with the gin.

Now, okay, I mean that's, you know, one way, but does he ever have these experiences? Does does this ever happen to him on a normal occasion? Does this ever Now, people could say, well, what okay, but if he drinks these drinks regularly, why why doesn't he have these experiences on other times? You see it's interesting like I mentioned with this erotized kind of thing that there were certain at times there was certain um let's say grain that would become whether it was erotized or obtain a uh it become a afflicted with a particular fungi unplanned unscheduled it would just

happen. It's not like something that people would generally seek out, but it was widespread. Uh my point of saying this is that I do feel that this is within our tradition, but it's just because it was unnoticed. Um you know, people they wouldn't know it. So they would just assume that it's it's just normal stuff.

I wanted to actually share here as well. Uh if I can let me just let me see if I can bring this up. Yeah, I actually feel that a verse of the Quran if anything uh explains an experience that is an approximation to to be understood by people if their consciousness has expanded in in such a way.

And that is inah like let me bring this verse up for you. Now people will say that okay no this verse is just speaking about Allah but nobody really understands the this verse in its true imagery that Allah that uh that you see Allah is the light of the heavens. Now that much you can understand but look the example the similitude of his light.

Now, if I'll just read it. Now, this verse 35, you can take a look at the translation.

Now, just have a read of that. This is the Abdullah Yusf Ali that Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth. That part you can understand the parable of his light. It's as if there was a were a niche. is kind of like a like a cutout in a wall and within it a lamp and the lamp in a glass and the glass as though it was a star lit from a blessed tree, an olive tree, neither from the east nor of the west whose oil is a flamed without being put on fire without you know it's yet luminous um though fire scarcely touched it light upon light.

Now I would definitely argue that this understanding is an approximation. It is uh for people who have had certain experiences in this world and that these verses would would resonate with people like that. So I've tried to show that look there are certain um there are certain whether a person wants to read this verse of the Quran in that way or whether a person wants to look at the hadith of Abdulbah in that way that you know where he's

describing all these visions and having this particular drink with him this uh drink which the prophet said oh that's a good drink it is indeed purifying Whether it's this other narration which was by I mentioned that look this particular the paganum seed it is blessed angel and it reaches where the angel reaches and it cures everything and it expands and and you know what and I'm not saying whether that hadith has to be sah but the narrative had to have existed to the extent that awam is highlighting and other people that this paganum seed

is something widespread and people use it in things like bread to the fact that Roomie often speaks of it in his poetry, the paganum seed and why his drink is made out of this harla and so on and and yet he often addresses his nay the flute and the flute is made from uh a particular read that contains often and I I showed that it is often used historically for making flutes and that is known to have contained things like DMT.

What I'm trying to show is that I feel that this has been part and parcel of the tradition but it's just it didn't have a name. So people didn't understand that they were you see today it has a name. So because of that people they you know they delineate and they say no no no you know we we're not going to you know this is wrong or this is um it seems to be a a kind of a triggered event induced event but in the past they would have been inducing it just not realizing that they're inducing it because it would

have been maybe part of the grain maybe it was urgatized grain maybe they were consuming these these things which were natural. They didn't understand that these things would and when it's consumed with a particular grain, it would have a certain um you know it would have a certain eruption of consciousness. So yeah these are and when you look at the Quran was sunnah there is nothing I would argue that these verses of the Quran resonate with that but there is nothing to say this is not okay this is not of the Quran did exist these things existed by the way if Allah wanted to