Drugs Did Good Things For Me: My Spiritual Awakenings From Ecstasy And Cocaine

Drugs Did Good Things For Me: My Spiritual Awakenings From Ecstasy And Cocaine

Drugs Did Good Things For Me My Spiritual Awakenings from Ecstasy and Cocaine   I started taking drugs in 1999, at age twenty-six, when I moved to New York City to work as a consultant on Wall Street. I had just graduated from the Weston Jesuit Seminary in Cambridge, MA, where I acquired a master’s degree in Roman Catholic Theology. Before that, as a Harvard undergrad, I was a student pastor in an Evangelical Christian organization, leading prayer groups and Bible studies on campus. My gateway drug was Ecstasy, then Marijuana, then Cocaine, then everything else. All told, I ended up trying every single recreational drug imaginable, sometimes all in one night, including GHB, Ketamine, Crystal Meth, and drugs you’ve probably never heard of unless you know what 2cB is or 2ci. I even smoked Crack and tried Heroin. Although to be fair, my Heroin usage was accidental. A friend of a friend gave me a pill in a club that I thought was Ecstasy. Once I took it, however, something different came over me. I still remember how each time I puffed on my cigarette; it sent waves of tingling pleasure through my whole body emanating directly from my chest. I had to go sit down it was so orgasmic. I lost contact with my friends. And I had their coat check tickets in my pocket. They went home in the bitter, cold morning without their winter coats. I only found out later it was Heroin I had taken. I attended Catholic school while growing up in Fort Lauderdale, FL. In retrospect, it was pure torture, the agony...