Hi Scorpioeyes. I have experienced various drugs, particularly plant allies, mushrooms... I have had many profound consciousness altering and expanding experiences that have given me total new awareness. I gained a total new sense of Reality/realities and of my Self in this reality. Transcendence.
My experiences with these consciousness expanding substances have given me so much knowledge and understanding that I feel I was some how meant to learn in this way.
I know some people achieve this awareness and understanding through meditation and although I do enjoy yoga and breathing exercises, I am still practising quieting my mind in breathing, enough to meditate and I have not yet achieved that state.