The Master's wisdom # 8 – hallucinating drugs are not a tool to achieve freedom
While psychedelic drugs, natural as well , can indeed reveal to you other dimensions and worlds of great wonder, they will never ever Free you.
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It is told about the late Carlos Castaneda, the American researcher, who has extensively described his occult adventures in the deserts of New-Mexico, guided by his mentor, Don Juan, that on his deathbed he confessed that the drugs he had used to alter his state of awareness were a misconduct. Castaneda has realized that although the hallucinating herbs he used to take have revealed to him unknown, and often frightening, inner dimensions, they also have kept him prisoned within a narrow band of reality.
You see, the reality is vast, beyond any knowledge of any human being. Some of us are familiar with the near earth realms, others have traveled a bit farther, but true freedom comes when one becomes sovereign. A sole master of his/her own domain.
And drugs, my friends, being a product of the physical reality, have a limited power, and therefore can only mess with the mind. They may change a little bit the color of your cage, meld somehow the bars, but at the end of the day, you would still remain locked inside your prison.
Drugs is great to those people who can control themselves and having a tough mind consider the famous in tech. like Steve Jobs and John McAfee. But I wouldn't suggest using drugs to those people who has weak mind and vulnerable to psychological problems.
If one takes drugs for fun, then I can think of other, better, safer, ways to make fun.
But, it's a free world.
Using these drugs will cause drastic changes in your sensory perception including visual and audible hallucinations. Empathogens – these .... Marijuana does not make the top 12 despite the fact that it is widely used and some psychologists consider it as a psychedelic drug
Thanks for this input.
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Hell i cant afford them...
poverty sucks
You are naturally hi all the time... save your cash.
Lol ...nicely done...
i dont blame u for this!!!!
what i have naturally is the red eyes in the morning .. :p
You can never be rich ....😁
yes get me some tooo :)
I have never tasted drugs in a sense to relieve my mind of any burden. I tried marijuana once, but never had need to repeat it again. First, my belive doesn’t allow me and second I know this almost always ends in a tragic ways. I don’t even take any pain relievers or antibiotics, because I belive in body healing itself. Perhaps, that’s why last time I was sick was 5 years ago and my psychological problems past away without any long therm damage.
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
I know what you mean. I'm afraid though that it won't help for the long run. I think you discovered it already.
Eye opening post @nomad-magus. Drugs ruin the potential and lives deep inside while showing the false changes around us. Drugs strengthens the imprisonment and doesn't free us.
Thank you for sharing
Havent tried any yet ..and i guess wont try ever ....but i have figured out many things like people use it and feel like it makes them feel free ,breaking the chain that try to hold them with boring life ...
they first give it a try to feel the taste then become addicted to it & then feel the need more then anything....
It's a false freedom. Allowing them to feel a more spacious cage in the zoo. Nothing more than that.
Everyone knows that but the one indulged in this process never want to even put their thought process to the thing destroying them from the very inside...
caging them even more deeper ...
Learning from mistakes is a very wise thing. Truly the trouble is the most expensive teacher.
To my opinion it is very simple, anything which is not fresh air we shouldn't breath and something which is not food we shouldn't eat...With these rules cigarettes and drugs are out. I always say to my friend that I don't need a drug for being happy.
Also as you wrote drugs ca't liberate you from your "prison", thanks for sharing your thinkings.
From the word itself “drugs” it mght be a tool fo curing or a prevention of diseases but it was never a cure of a feeling that is being locked up inside you. They say drugs can lift you up when you are down, can make you happy and erase the bad memories when you are high, can’t think of any negativities when you are high. But how about if the effect of the drugs in your system is being tune down? It is not a freedom. True. It only makes you feel like you are free when you are high but after the effects? It will bring you disaster and you will only be in that same position before you take it.