elaborate chase, why do you think I am so far removed from the reality of the role drugs play in our society? On the contrary I think I do understand the role drugs play and thats why I am saying, if we want to curb drug abuse we need to change our cultural attitudes toward drugs and what their purpose is.
I like the natural drugs especially for this reason, its one thing to say people shouldn't take highly potent addictive and deadly chemicals like methamphetamine for fun and access should be restricted. but access to natural plants?
I argue that when you try to make nature illegal, it is proof something has gone wrong in the life philosophy of your society. It's part of our fear/hatred of nature in my opinion, that we demonize plants just as we have learned to demonize and fear many other natural things like the subconscious. As Terrence Mckenna so eloquently put it, the issue facing us is this question: "Is nature God or is nature the devil?"
I see it as a part of a false Christian morality that we have somehow allowed to be imposed on us and bought into ourselves. The belief/worship of the male God up above, oppression of women/fear hatred for the feminine, nature and bodily enjoyment all tie into this.
I have studied the Bible and in the book of wisdom it says
For he fashioned all things that they might have being;
and the creatures of the world are wholesome,
and there is not a destructive drug among them
nor any domain of the netherworld on earth,
for justice is undying.
Granted this book was removed from the Protestant Bible but it here is scriptural proof that plants based drugs are wholesome and not destructive, created by God for a purpose (and I am guessing that purpose was not for them to be demonized and made illegal in place of chemicals were are destructive).
So how did we go from this ancient understanding of God's presence in and purpose for nature to current Christian "morality" which many people seem to think should be anti-drug/ in favor of prohibition?
Modern Christians do not connect God with nature anymore. Many ancient Christian saints (including Jesus) spent time or lived their whole lives in the dessert. Ancient peoples understood that the patterns, operations and intelligence of nature is part of or a reflection/manifestation of the intelligence of the divine.
Now we live cut off from nature, with no understanding of her mysteries and whenever something is discovered that might reveal some of them to us (like an etheogenic mushroom) the first response is FEAR and demonization and the second is ridicule (those crazy hippies who think mushrooms expand your mind). There is no more faith/trust in nature, instead we have placed it in the hands of corrupt "authority" figures who have demonstrated over and over again that they don't have our best interests at heart as well as a general ineptness even in the rare instances they do mean well.
Its not a conspiracy, its fact. Look at the under handed tactics of the pharmaceutical companies.
I've heard it joked that God must be some sort of "head" because he created so many psychoactive plants (literally hundreds)
Now further, I would argue that this very alienation from nature and the natural order of things, is a big part of what fuels the addiction and desperation that plagues so many. I was no different. Deeply unsatisfied with my life in this society, I turned to drug abuse. It was through years of experimentation that I finally began to realize that plants were not our enemy and can actually be used for good.
And rather than look at this as naive or delusional, on the contrary I'd argue many other people are waking up to this same ancient knowledge. When I was 18, I never though that in a decades time I would be able to walk into a dispensory and choose from 40 strains of marijuana. The massive changes we have seen in the cannabis laws are a direct example of people waking up out of the fear/demonization mindset toward nature/plants and beginning to see that they can have benefits when used in an intelligent matter and that prohibition is not a good policy. America is supposed to be about freedom, how much freedom do you really have when you can go to jail for growing a plant that helps you? As NOFX said "are we men or are we children?"
Ironically its most likely the children that keep plants illegal. As I said before, people dont think rationally about emotional topics so whenever a politician mentions legalizing drugs they lose votes from all the parents who are so scared that their kids might try drugs.
I realize we have a long way to go, but so many positive changes are happening not even just with cannabis but the recent psilocybin studies and MDMA psychotherapy. I am saying we need to change our cultural attitude and begin looking at drugs the powerful medicines which they are. Once more people see them in this light, they will naturally be more inclined to think "Hmmm, I wonder if I could cure my depression through ayahasca or San Pedro ceremonies rather than being dependent on prozac the rest of my life). It will take decades of course, but people are waking up.
I like the natural drugs especially for this reason, its one thing to say people shouldn't take highly potent addictive and deadly chemicals like methamphetamine for fun and access should be restricted. but access to natural plants?
I argue that when you try to make nature illegal, it is proof something has gone wrong in the life philosophy of your society. It's part of our fear/hatred of nature in my opinion, that we demonize plants just as we have learned to demonize and fear many other natural things like the subconscious. As Terrence Mckenna so eloquently put it, the issue facing us is this question: "Is nature God or is nature the devil?"
I see it as a part of a false Christian morality that we have somehow allowed to be imposed on us and bought into ourselves. The belief/worship of the male God up above, oppression of women/fear hatred for the feminine, nature and bodily enjoyment all tie into this.
I have studied the Bible and in the book of wisdom it says
For he fashioned all things that they might have being;
and the creatures of the world are wholesome,
and there is not a destructive drug among them
nor any domain of the netherworld on earth,
for justice is undying.
Granted this book was removed from the Protestant Bible but it here is scriptural proof that plants based drugs are wholesome and not destructive, created by God for a purpose (and I am guessing that purpose was not for them to be demonized and made illegal in place of chemicals were are destructive).
So how did we go from this ancient understanding of God's presence in and purpose for nature to current Christian "morality" which many people seem to think should be anti-drug/ in favor of prohibition?
Modern Christians do not connect God with nature anymore. Many ancient Christian saints (including Jesus) spent time or lived their whole lives in the dessert. Ancient peoples understood that the patterns, operations and intelligence of nature is part of or a reflection/manifestation of the intelligence of the divine.
Now we live cut off from nature, with no understanding of her mysteries and whenever something is discovered that might reveal some of them to us (like an etheogenic mushroom) the first response is FEAR and demonization and the second is ridicule (those crazy hippies who think mushrooms expand your mind). There is no more faith/trust in nature, instead we have placed it in the hands of corrupt "authority" figures who have demonstrated over and over again that they don't have our best interests at heart as well as a general ineptness even in the rare instances they do mean well.
Its not a conspiracy, its fact. Look at the under handed tactics of the pharmaceutical companies.
I've heard it joked that God must be some sort of "head" because he created so many psychoactive plants (literally hundreds)
Now further, I would argue that this very alienation from nature and the natural order of things, is a big part of what fuels the addiction and desperation that plagues so many. I was no different. Deeply unsatisfied with my life in this society, I turned to drug abuse. It was through years of experimentation that I finally began to realize that plants were not our enemy and can actually be used for good.
And rather than look at this as naive or delusional, on the contrary I'd argue many other people are waking up to this same ancient knowledge. When I was 18, I never though that in a decades time I would be able to walk into a dispensory and choose from 40 strains of marijuana. The massive changes we have seen in the cannabis laws are a direct example of people waking up out of the fear/demonization mindset toward nature/plants and beginning to see that they can have benefits when used in an intelligent matter and that prohibition is not a good policy. America is supposed to be about freedom, how much freedom do you really have when you can go to jail for growing a plant that helps you? As NOFX said "are we men or are we children?"
Ironically its most likely the children that keep plants illegal. As I said before, people dont think rationally about emotional topics so whenever a politician mentions legalizing drugs they lose votes from all the parents who are so scared that their kids might try drugs.
I realize we have a long way to go, but so many positive changes are happening not even just with cannabis but the recent psilocybin studies and MDMA psychotherapy. I am saying we need to change our cultural attitude and begin looking at drugs the powerful medicines which they are. Once more people see them in this light, they will naturally be more inclined to think "Hmmm, I wonder if I could cure my depression through ayahasca or San Pedro ceremonies rather than being dependent on prozac the rest of my life). It will take decades of course, but people are waking up.
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