The Passions

Are psychedelics spiritually dangerous?

He classifies psychedelics as 'playing with fire' because the outcomes are unpredictable: some users walk away with nothing worse than a strange afternoon, while others enter psychosis and never come out. He says he has personally seen people become demon-possessed after a single trip, meeting demonic entities they say entered into them. The danger, in his telling, is that no one can know in advance which outcome they will get.