Well now that you asked lol, great thread by the way.
I started meditating at an early age without realizing what it was, probably aged 8 or 9.
When I got into my late teens, I would come back from a hard work out at the gym, smoke half a joint lay in a hot bath for an hour, get out, smoke the other half of the joint and lay on my bed dozing and relaxing. I would go into a deep relaxed state and have out of body experiences.
I usually vape before meditating now, 42 years on, I have just actually started to do more intense and regular meditation recently, as life is changing again, and I want to strengthen and enhance my psychic abilities further, now I don’t have to focus a lot of intention on making money so much now.
Weed definitely gets me in what I call the extasy zone faster, where I connect with source, higher self, universe, god or whatever name you want to give it.
My third eye chakra is being pushed hard atm, it gets a lot of energy pressure build up. I am getting lots of colors with my eyes closed as usual and can now create different colors at will, these colors have started forming geometrical shapes now, as well as faces appearing and telepathic communications.
It’s getting interesting again like when I started doing long 3 hour meditations to achieve astral or etheric projection instead of it accidentally happening, and I am constantly evaluating the information to make sure it’s not just an ego self generated thing to make me feel better about myself lol.
I find weed shuts down the mind chatter for me but this could also be auto suggestion from past use that weed will help me achieve certain states when used.
Really the best thing is achieving altered states of consciousness without any substances to help, but it’s a good way to know you can achieve a state, that might not be acessible for a person without a substance assist at that time in their development .
Once you know it’s possible the thought process changes, and the law of attraction starts creating a higher level of vibration, provided your thought process is positively focused and then the state can be accessed more frequently with less effort or substances to help.
Weed works well for me when doing the Wimm Hoff breathing technique as well, it definitely opens the airways and helps get those cannabinoids deep into my bodies cellular levels as well as the breath work resetting my autonomic nervous system, as well as improving my empathic and intuitive senses as well.