To say Drugs is "cheating" is just letting your ego judge a situation, probably with no first hand experience on the matter anyway. And to say that someone is doing it wrong cause its not the way you do it is even more absurd. If theres one thing I can say for sure is that no two paths are the same. I've personally seen reincarnated 'Shamans' from old tribes that need 'Peace-pipes' to get into that trance just because they have done it for years in their past lives.
I personally can do both, but I certainly do not judge.
Drugs certainly do open our mind to see past everything we've been programmed to believe in. It is all about how you use a substance that matters, as I've said before, its the addiction thats the problem, not the drug or alcohol or video games or sodas or food or sex or anything. Now iam not saying to go do some dirty man made drug like crack unless you really feel like being artificially addicted which is harder to control then any natural grown substance like Mushrooms or Marijuana or many other things.
Personally everytime Ive done Magic Mushrooms I've learned a little more about myself and this 'reality'.
I wanna try Peyote like them Indians do and go on a Spirit walk