IN PRAISE OF GETTING HIGH or YES, PLEASE TAKE DRUGS!
Doing one thing engenders another thing to happen. Stated another way, every action results in a reaction. This is a simple law of the universe first published publicly by Isaac Newton. Every time you do some thing, it has an effect in some other way. Change one thing and change the whole thing. There is no escape from this universal rule.
Let’s look at allopathic medicine for examples.
Simply stated, if a chemical or drug is introduced to the body, a reaction will result. If a pain killer is introduced, the patient will experience less pain. If the patient is suffering from an infection and an antibiotic is introduced, the infection will dissipate. If a patient is suffering from emotional or psychological trouble and an antidepressant is introduced, the melancholy will be lessened or possibly cease.
All well and good, right? Nothing morally objectionable, right? All things being equal, I would agree. However…
Keeping the above examples in mind, I have a question.
Can anyone in the world tell me why ingesting a chemical that changes or alters consciousness is somehow wrong’? Somehow ‘morally objectionable’?
Stated another way, can anyone tell me why so-called ‘illegal’ drugs are supposedly so bad?
How is it that altering one’s consciousness thru chemicals is worse than altering one’s physical health? I think the word ‘health’ is the key, especially as pertains to the above example dealing with depression. In that example it is obvious to most people since the patient’s emotional or psychological health is in jeopardy, there is no objection to helping the patient heal with a chemical that can help the body or brain revert back to a more balanced state of health.
Now keeping that in mind, how is it that altering one’s consciousness with drugs or entheogens so bad? After all, doesn’t everyone know that it is possible for the consciousness itself to be sick or unbalanced? The short answer? NO! Not everyone knows that it is possible for one’s consciousness to be in poor health. Not everyone is aware of their own consciousness.
And that is the central underlying problem with our nation’s attitude towards the list of currently ‘illegal drugs’—people are overwhelming and appallingly ignorant to the mere possibility that their inner consciousness itself is just as vulnerable to illness as their body, and by comparison may be as sick or even sicker than their bodies have ever been.
So if you wish to ‘self-medicate’ to expand and heal your consciousness, then do so. After all, it is YOUR consciousness that is in question. No one on earth has the right to keep you from changing, altering & expanding your consciousness because it is yours. Meditation expands consciousness if applied consistently, yet nowhere is meditation ‘illegal’. Then so be it also with drugs and entheogens.
Use them to expand your mind if you wish, or don’t.
