Drugs can be fun and beautiful. They pretty much work for everyone. On mdma you feel absolute love and want to share it. On lsd you feel absolute truth and what it’s like to live without ego. The opiate high gives you a glimpse into not wanting and how buddha’s noble truths is a way out of suffering. The cool thing is zero effort is required on the user’s part. Just get high and enjoy.
But they are not the real thing.
You must become a great poet or artist if you want to describe and express these experiences with words. The creative path becomes an exploration of all that. But it is possible to access all those places without drugs as well. In fact I would argue that you can get much higher without drugs because you are much sharper and pure in the pursuit.
At the end of the day you still have to drop all the excuses and justifications for why you cannot face that boredom. It’s like a wall that runners hit. Nothing else will get you through that except the experience itself. It can be very traumatizing to do all that work and feel like nothing is advancing.
Just ask Sam Harris. He had to write a scientific book on spirituality to justify his own failures on the path and pretty much gave up. He came back to society, went back to school, got a wife and kids and started a podcast.
Yoga helps to prepare the mind and body.
You know what’s coming.