I joined this forum because I feel a need to talk to other people serious about cantheism. It's been something I've kept to myself since its not a very popular idea among people.

I was agnostic for a long time until marijuana gave me religion. Now I had already been smoking pot about 2 years and the experience had never been spiritual, until one very stoned evening for no reason all, something happened to me completely unlike any trip I had ever had on weed. I don't know how to explain it. The only word I've found that seems close to what happened is the concept of "Kensho" in buddhism. It awakened a lot of spiritual faith in me and has consumed my life for the past year. Every time I smoked since then the trip has always been extremely spiritual, and every time I feel that I learn something new about the universe.

Now there are only two people I have heard talk about concepts to do with cantheism. One is the comedian Bill Hicks, who was a revolutionary thinker and a true cantheist who has been a huge inspiration to me and by echoing idea's I have formed in my head has validated them. The other person is a woman at my college who I listend to for a few minutes. I was walking to my professor's office and thinking about cantheism, (i am usually lost in thought, but it's not often that I am really concentrating on the subject of cantheism as I was then), and when i got to my proffessors office I saw he was already talking to another student, so I waited outisde for a moment, and listened in on a woman talking about cantheism. These types of coincidences have been increasing steadily as my interest in spirituality grows. anyway, she was explaining her cantheist faith to some classmates and talking about seeing people's auras, (which I have been practicing on recently and am starting to get results).

Anyway, I'm becomming aware of how important it is to have other people who share the faith to talk with, so I want to share how I approach cantheism. The most important thing is to get high and just think. Some people don't like to get high by themselves, but the possibilities for inward contemplation in this setting are literally endless. I also find it helps to listen to music, which will form ideas in your head. This all puts you in a sort of mental universe, a realm where your mind is open to you, and you can do anything. I called it "hydroplaning" intially, for no reason other than the word popped into my head to describe the way in which I was thinking. Really there is no connection between this type of thinking and having your car go out of control, I just could find a word for being able to control the universe with your thoughts. It's like a thought process, one thought inevitably leading to next and one concept fundamentally linked to another, like a ladder that you climb by thinking and you build momentum and tear through complex philisophical ideas with ease and grace until you can see elightenment coming, and it hits when you realise that you had it the whole time, that in every second we are THERE, at the center of the universe, in the sea of Nirvana, or in heaven or however you want to describe that realm of perfection that all spiritual thinking strives for, that we are there and always have been and that its just a skewed perception that doesn't allow us to realise this. When you get there, at the end of the epic journey it's just a mirror. Bill Hicks once said, "We are one being experiancing itself subconsciously and death is an illusion".

The concept i am trying to expain are difficult because we just dont have words for them, so I think most of you wont connect with what I am saying. What i'm trying to do is reach out for someone else that has experienced the same thing and knows what i mean. If you are someone who knows cantheism personally please respond and write about your experiences.

-Matt