We all have the power to perceive “it all” on our own through meditation and complete surrender to a higher power within our material reality. Unfortunately, this is almost impossible to achieve when we are born into a world which has almost totally surrendered to the illusion of ego. This is why many people on a higher spiritual level seek seclusion/cloistering.
However, God gave us symbiotic molds and plants that can help us. Just like penicillin heals our bodies, other natural compounds can help heal our minds from things far more complex than bacteria.
“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us “a universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.” - Albert Einstein
I’ll bet you I was meditating before you were born, so I’ve been down that road. At one time in my life, I was a jazz musician. I even belonged to the musicians union. I know all about that “Heroin really frees my soul, man” thinking. There’s lots of dead jazz musicians. There’s even more of them walking around dead. Jazz musicians were the models for all these zombie movies. People have different ways of learning. If you want to learn the hard way, be my guest.
“It’s easy to be a holy man on a mountain. It’s much harder to be a holy man in the city.”