As for the schizophrenic theory, it’s a nice theory, but here’s what I experienced around it myself; I had a very close friend (a guy) who went to a film festival one winter. He had just had a birthday and turned about 29 or 30. While he was at a party on his trip someone slipped a dose of LSD or other hallucinogenic into his water. This caused a break with reality for him. He was stuck in paranoia for the next 2 weeks, terrified that people were trying to shoot him on his flight home, and that assassins were after his family. He was then diagnosed with Schizophrenia and put on meds. After about a year of this, it was too much for him and he committed suicide. I was devastated, he was a dear friend who I really loved. My high-school sweetheart’s brother was schizophrenic and a good friend of mine also had a schizophrenic brother. And yes, talking to these people was disconcerting to say the least. There is obviously some level of other awareness there, but the problem is that when someone has trouble holding onto this realty that we all agree on – then they become lost in the void with little way to get back. And drugs can (and have on many occasions) caused people to get lost in that void. Drugs also make people open to interference from low vibrational energies. Not a place any of us wants to go.
As for the spontaneous group awareness you are referring to, it’s called the ’100th Monkey Syndrome’ and it is a good subject for my next post here, so stay tuned! I will write about it this week.
Ecstasy I am also familiar with. The problem I saw with it was that the intimacy that it creates wasn’t authentic. I think it’s great for people to have extended networks and to truly connect on a deep level, that is what I am all about. But there really aren’t any shortcuts. You can’t know someone, unless you actually know them
Besides, you are from the Pluto in Scorpio generation – a whole entire generation of people who are fascinated with the deep dark corners of the mind, power and transformation – that’s why your peers love Vampires so much!
]]>i think plants can be very helpful when used correctly. Your guide who told you there are no schools which can handle the teachings of plants was giving you a message relavent for you. perhaps for your spiritual work and the section of humanity that you will be helping, that is correct, and drugs should be avoided.
But there are people who have had complete spirtitual awakenings that would have been impossible without drugs. Sometimes this has appeared to be haphazardly but the universe has in some cases through chains of ‘coincedences’ or ‘synchronicity’ conspired to ensure certain people end up taking certain plants at certain times and places that help free their minds in a way that would have been impossible for them to do otherwise in the circumstances they were in.
i don’t think the new wave of psychadelic use that started in the 20th century has been a mistake or a coincedence. the times we are living in require a drastic change in the mindset of western ‘civillised’ humanity, if we are to progress along a path of creation and renewal and avoid complete self destruction. Western humanity hasn’t got the same generations of experience as the older indigenous tribal cultures, so of course there will be problems at this trial and error stage of discovery.
However, i think the use of psychadelics is causing an evolution of the western psyche that will eventually lead to a revoltution in our whole society.
One single dose of a psychadelic drug in the right set and setting has lead many people to persue spiritual paths without drugs that they would have previously shunned with the cynical material atheism that is quite prevalent in our society at the moment.
i don’t think drugs are the path, i see them as a door opener for some people to help them onto the path.
once you’ve opened the door, why keep swinging on it? This is what it sounds like your client has done with lsd.
I also think synthetic drugs like lsd are not as beneficial as natural psychadelics such as psilocybin mushrooms, although have been helpful in many cases.
(sorry about my terrible spelling and grammer by the way, i type like i talk so i can get it all out)
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