The Psychic Voyage – Psychedelic or Not?
The last time I smoked pot I was 14 years old.
It was such a horrible and paranoid experience for me that I never wanted to repeat it. After all, I was already going on these kinds of inner journeys without the aid of outside substances.
The first time I did drugs is another story altogether – that actually happened BEFORE I was born.
Growing up in the counter-culture hippie movement taught me a lot about drugs and their uses and misuses. Since I was always psychically open through all this, I learned that drugs were a real no-no for me personally, it was just too, too much.
But many people who want to pursue an inner journey do want to use drugs and other substances to get there. I found a website that does a great job of giving the overview on what this is all about, you can take a look HERE at Deoxy.
About 10 years ago, I did a channelling where the guides said in no uncertian terms that there “were no schools at this time on planet earth that were capable of handling or teaching the mysteries that the substances of drugs offered.” They went on to warn that each substance has it’s own level of consciousness, and therefore it’s own agenda. This was enough for me.
Of all the people I have known who have used substances to further their journey, none of them have opened in a way that I consider particularly enlightened or enlightening. On the other hand, I have known several who have died from it, and far more who have slipped into something resembling insanity.
Back in the day, when I first started doing psychic readings for clients, I worked at the Psychic Eye Bookshop in Venice Ca. One day, this guy came in to have a reading from me. He sat down in front of me and started asking me all these questions about his studies. I just couldn’t stop staring at the area above his head. I’d never seen anything like it before in my life. It looked like a funnel cloud was coming out of the side of his head – you know, like the hurricane that lifted Dorothy off to OZ.
So I asked him if he did a lot of LSD. He looked startled for a second, then said .”yes” and went on to tell me about all the dozens and dozens of times he’d done it. I told him to stop, that it was causing damage to his Aura, and that it may already be past repair. To me, it was like creating an extra bypass valve on your heart in order to get your blood from one side of your body to the other; both unneeded and dangerous.
You see, we can do all of this stuff naturally. This is what the deeper mysteries of yogic breathing and buddhism are all about. In fact, the body has built in fail-safes to keep you from causing damage or going past the areas where you aren’t ready to go. Using drugs bypass these fail-safes. That’s why people are attracted to them. That’s also why they are dangerous to your psychic and spiritual development.
And in the end, the drugs are not a shortcut to spiritual development. Quite the opposite actually. What happens when someone starts to lean on a substance to access the inner realms is that the substance becomes the goal or ‘god’ of the experience. And real spirituality is lost on the journey.
July 25, 2010 8:31 pm 4 Comments
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By michelle, July 31, 2010 @ 9:31 am
Tribal shaman have been using plant preperations like the ayhuasca brew for thousands of years, to aid in healing and entering spiritual states of awareness and group conciousness withinin the tribe and the forest to gain direct knowledge about the plants around them from one of the plants themselves.
when done correctly, using the wisdom of thousands of years of research by tribal ancestors, psychadelic plants can be one of the most beneficial things a person can do to help them open up, understand themselves, the spirit worlds and the material world around them on other levels that would normally take a lifetime of work for people who’s psychic mind isn’t as naturally in tune as yours is.
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)
By admin, July 31, 2010 @ 9:49 am
Well, thanks for your perspective. A lot of people feel the same way you do.
I DO have an insiders view of the whole psychedelic movement, after all my parents met at Timothy Leary’s ranch when they were doing acid. You actually sound a little like Leary in your post, he was calling for there to be a LAW that required everyone in the government to take LSD. Well, it couldn’t make things any worse than they are now, that’s all I can say about it!
By michelle, August 1, 2010 @ 3:41 am
I don’t think I’d go as far a leary. He started an lsd cult and gave acid to kids as young as 9. I dont think people should try drugs till they’re brains are fully developed, definitely seems safer after the age of 20. kids and teenagers are open enough already and teens are a bit crazy without taking drugs, so seems very risky.
inherited schitzophrenia shows up in teens too, so by 20s would already know if a person has long term, not chemically induced psychosis. i beleive the majority of schitzophrenics are actually extremely psychic and have a calling as a shaman but our society can’t deal with it and the mindset of our culture confuses these people so much they can’t funcion in the way they are predisposed to and end up being tranquilised and subdued. For these people, psychadelics can antagonise things in some cases and be beneficial and help them to see their true minds and paths in other cases. its a delicate balance.
My rule of thumb is if a person is naturally inclined to want to explore the realms of psychadelics and events in life seems to naturally lead them there, then it is usually right. stick with the tao- don’t go against the flow and you’ll be ok i reckon.
However saying that, I do think for about 90% of people in the right set and setting a single dose of a psychadelic such as psilosybin mushrooms or lsd would usually open their mind up enough to cause a significant positive change in society, but its unlikey most people will want to do this and i think its wrong to force people.
we have a collective consciousness anyway. theres enough people doing psychadelics and getting into natural altered states without drugs to affect the people not doing this. we have a psychic connection with every living being on this planet whether we’re aware of it or not.
Have you heard the theory that once a person has discovered something like say a physical law or solved a mathematical problem, it makes it easier for others to spontaneously discover the same things without any prior knowledge that its already been discovered?
This happens all the time in science. you will get one team that makes an amazing breakthrough and discovers something completely unexpected and several other teams discover the same thing around the same time, without being in normal contact with the other team. They always end up in a mad rush to get published first.
I think this is happening with the mind expansion going on in some people, it is affecting everyone.
I’m in my 20s and ive seen how the use of ecstacy in my generation and the one before me has completely changed the way people relate to each other, whether they’ve done ecstacy before or not. We have a whole generation of people that are more open with thier feelings than any previous and like to go out to have a dance and make new friends just for the fun of it, without worrying too much about finding someone to go home with at the end of the night (although thats always a bonus). People are building huge networks of friends and aquaintances and openly sharing ideas and feelings and experiences on a scale that has never been seen before in recorded history. the internet is helping with this of course, but i think the change in our psyche partly due to hippy culture from the 60s and rave culture from the late 80s onwards has alot to do with all of this. people are slowly freeing their minds and waking up from the matrix, i can see it all around me.
i can see a difficult but hopeful future ahead of us. everythings changing dramatically but its a change we need. don’t let the cynics get you down, my generation and the ones after me will fix the mistakes of history and start afresh. have faith!
By admin, August 1, 2010 @ 8:26 am
Thanks for the well-thought out insights Michelle.
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!