It sounds like you’re basically saying “all will be explained in my upcoming post”. Fair enough. I look forward to reading it. (This ordering is very much not ideal, imo, but that happens sometimes.)
Re: how this “kensho” state was achieved, and whether it was drugs or not:
You are, of course, right that it’s imprudent to admit to illegal drug use on a public Internet forum. Your policy of a “no comment” response, if asked directly, is a sensible one. (It also sounds like it was not drugs in this case, because then—presumably—you would not be planning to tell us about it in your upcoming post.)
But, in the counterfactual case where…
… you did achieve your not-really-enlightenment-but-something-related state via drug use, and then…
… made a blog post about having achieved this state, without revealing how…
… because it would be imprudent to admit to drug use…
… then, in that scenario, you would have done this, knowing in advance that you would refuse to reveal this crucial fact, if asked.
(“Crucial”, I say, because let’s face it—“I dropped acid and had a mystical experience and uncovered Truths, which, alas, it is nigh-impossible to put into words” is… not, shall we say, an exceedingly interesting story, nor a particularly novel one.)
In that scenario, writing this post would, of course, be quite unethical!
Anyhow, it sounds like my concern doesn’t apply here, which is gratifying.
It sounds like you’re basically saying “all will be explained in my upcoming post”. Fair enough. I look forward to reading it. (This ordering is very much not ideal, imo, but that happens sometimes.)
Re: how this “kensho” state was achieved, and whether it was drugs or not:
You are, of course, right that it’s imprudent to admit to illegal drug use on a public Internet forum. Your policy of a “no comment” response, if asked directly, is a sensible one. (It also sounds like it was not drugs in this case, because then—presumably—you would not be planning to tell us about it in your upcoming post.)
But, in the counterfactual case where…
… you did achieve your not-really-enlightenment-but-something-related state via drug use, and then…
… made a blog post about having achieved this state, without revealing how…
… because it would be imprudent to admit to drug use…
… then, in that scenario, you would have done this, knowing in advance that you would refuse to reveal this crucial fact, if asked.
(“Crucial”, I say, because let’s face it—“I dropped acid and had a mystical experience and uncovered Truths, which, alas, it is nigh-impossible to put into words” is… not, shall we say, an exceedingly interesting story, nor a particularly novel one.)
In that scenario, writing this post would, of course, be quite unethical!
Anyhow, it sounds like my concern doesn’t apply here, which is gratifying.