After searching for spiritual truth through psychedelics, Selah Croft says she eventually discovered the healing and freedom she had been looking for in Jesus. Here, she explains how her extraordinary encounter with the Holy Spirit in 2025 changed the way she understood her past and the dangers she believes Christians should be aware of.
I used to call myself a ‘truth seeker’ because of my insatiable hunger to discover the meaning of life. My New Age upbringing planted the seed, but when my beloved sister took her own life, the mission became serious. I attended psychic readings, spiritualist churches and even a Buddhist retreat, all before I was 18. And when I discovered psychedelics, I became ravenously obsessed.
In the space of a decade, I attended 20 ayahuasca ceremonies, endured five-gram mushroom trips, smoked DMT countless times, drank mescaline-laced cactus juice, ate several tabs of LSD and dived into many ketamine ‘K-holes’. But this wasn’t just to ‘get high’. I genuinely thought I was accessing spiritual realms and receiving healing.
I became an insufferable psychedelic evangelist and ignored anything that didn’t fit the narrative.
I became an insufferable psychedelic evangelist and ignored anything that didn’t fit the narrative. Despite my efforts, I was even more anxious, miserable, selfish and narcissistic than before. Moreover, everyone I met in the scene suffered similar character flaws. I experienced jealousy, bullying and even violence from psychedelic community leaders. We were all broken, yet we thought we were more enlightened than ‘normal’ people. And naturally, we craved power.
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If we look at the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5, it’s clear that psychedelics are rooted in the flesh and far removed from the Holy Spirit
If we look at the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5, it’s clear that psychedelics are rooted in the flesh and far removed from the Holy Spirit: “Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like… But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control…” (Galatians 5:19-22 NKJV)
If it wasn’t for my miraculous encounter with the Holy Spirit in March 2025, I’d still be trapped in that delusion. It’s hard to describe what happened, but on one average evening on the sofa with a friend, Jesus saved me in the blink of an eye. He sobered me up, gave me a whole new mind, and I felt entirely changed.
While figuring out what on earth happened that night, Jesus was gently healing my mental health and taking away my addictions. Once I connected the dots, I realised that Jesus was the truth I was looking for all along. And not only did he provide the answers and the healing that I craved, He filled me with levels of love, peace and joy and that I didn’t know were possible.
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Comparing the so-called healing of psychedelics to the almighty power of God is like comparing sand to stars. I used to boast that I was ‘walking the healing path’. But Jesus helped me see that I was stuck on a treadmill. Psychedelic culture makes you believe that you must endure ‘bad trips’ to grow spiritually. But Jesus says we can rest in him through faith alone.
Now that I’m rooted in my faith, I’m looking back at psychedelics through the lens of the Bible. In Scripture, we are issued several warnings against ‘sorcery’ and ‘witchcraft’ (e.g. Deuteronomy 18:10-12, Galatians 5:19-21 and Revelation 21:6-8). Interestingly, the Greek root word is pharmakeia, which can mean ‘the use of illicit drugs in ungodly spiritual practices’, which is exactly what psychedelics are.
The biblical authors must have considered pharmakeia to be both real and dangerous. Therefore, it’s reasonable to suggest that psychedelics open you up to nefarious evil forces. Fundamentally, we don’t know this, but if we believe the Bible to be the inspired Word of God, then we must take these warnings seriously. Whether we like it or not, we are living through the ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’. Academic institutions are churning out research, podcasters are sharing experiences, and the internet is awash with headlines. Psychedelics have flooded mainstream culture, and we must be equipped to deal with this.
We must remember that we are fighting a spiritual battle. I personally believe our spiritual enemy is using influential organisations to push a narrative about psychedelics. And I believe that our enemy is luring people with the illusion of short-term healing and drawing them away from the Kingdom.
Apart from God, if something appears to be too good to be true, it probably is. So, when a loved one excitedly tells you about their discovery of psychedelics: “Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 6:11-12 NIV).
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