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by Chris2048 2601 days ago
What is "spiritual use"?
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Depends on your definition of spiritual, I suppose.

I didn't mean anything too semantically specific. I meant the religious/cultural practices using psychodelic which still exist and the new practices similar to them.

I'm not a hard lines type, so I'll concede a ton of grey area between spiritual, therapeutic and recreational... if that's what you're driving at.

Probably use that is intended as general self-improvement and finding better perspective on life in general, as opposed to the same but for something going wrong (therapeutic) or for fun (recreational). Really it could fit under therapeutic use.
A form of practice undertaken by people for their own reasons in accordance with their own beliefs or philosophies. It's no big deal.