I have never had a mystic experience while on any substance. But what I am talking about is not an experience but something indescribable that can only be conveyed as a clarity of the mind in which no thought at all exists and everything is obvious as to its beingness and relative existence. The word experience is inaccurate because it never goes away. By analogy, though not a perfect analogy, it's like looking at one of those stereograms when you at long last see the three-D image and then each time thereafter it is obviously there. I have also had at least a thousand out of body experiences that began when I was about 4 or 5 and continue to this day, as well as other experiences that I rarely discuss. But experiences come and go and I do not consider them mystical, but rather phenomenal.

I bring this up not to talk about myself, but rather to say that when you come to realize what you are and what everything is then you easily differentiate between the idea of god and that which is the Absolute, which is the starting place out of which all else arises. Until you have been situated there then it's not possible to understand.

While philosophy and the exchange of ideas is wonderful, it is not the ineffable and can never be the bridge to grasping the ineffable.