The rabbi had positive views about youth drug use. Traditional religions have lost the ability to provide their followers with mystical experiences. Instead, young people are far more likely to have such experiences while on LSD or Ecstasy. Most religious leaders, he said, were against the use of drugs because of their own ignorance. Then they would learn that certain drugs can produce the same quality and potential value as other mystical experiences.
Some people use Ecstasy for religious rituals.
A group of eight graduating seniors from Harvard Divinity School held a non-sectarian ritual earlier this year using Ecstasy which they called 'The Harvard Agape'. Indeed it was am amazing grace, that grace that passes all understanding. It was as if, at that moment, all barriers had come down, all suffering had ended, all pain had been relieved, all joys had been known. I forgave the offences I had suffered and was forgiven for my sins. I was healed.