1 (edited by JohnnyFuctup 2005-06-02 08:35:27)

Topic: Warning: The Drugs Don't Work

Warning, this thread may contain drug references  wink

Been thinking about cannabis and magic mushrooms. It's occured to me that the reason cannabis and (soon in UK) mushrooms are illegal is not through any mental/physical health or social reasons, but that they wake up the people to what is really going on in the world:

a) They begin to realize that practically everything they're told on TV is garbage and mind control.

b) They start to question the reality they live in.

Obviously that is the last thing the government want.

Alcohol and cigarettes do nothing to put you in a useful state of consciousness where you can work things out or ponder your existence, and more likely start a fight with someone or fall over in the gutter, and are probably worse for your health all things considered. Yet these are legal and cannabis is not?? Seems very fishy to me...

And now they are trying to sell the fact that cannabis causes schizophrenia, which I have a great trouble believing... (in fact I had a friend who was schizophrenic who started smoking cannabis because it helped his condition... strange that...

The propoganda even worked on me, even whilst I was smoking... I believed that I was lethargic, couldn't think straight and was incapacitated by the drug, because they were the percieved effects... the idea of doing some computer programming after a joint would seem barmy... but I started to think about this and realized that I weren't overpowered by these effects, only if I sat back and let them... I've since started having a joint before going to work, and I find myself to be MUCH better, faster and more inspired programmer. I'm a chronic insomniac, but can nod off like a baby after a joint, I can be feeling ill, tired, angry, stressed or worried about something, a single joint will reset me to the same serine state.

I firmly believe cannabis to be a wonderful thing that has helped my life in 100s of ways, impeded it or made it worse in 0 ways. Both my mother and my girlfriend are firmly against smoking cannabis, and are both chronic insomniacs and worriers... sad that I know that one puff of a joint would do them so much good, mentally, physically (stress is a big killer) and spiritually... yet because of the way it is portrayed in the media by our governments they would never make that leap and smoke the "dirty drug"... I think that's a terrible shame myself.

Yet pharmaceutical companies are quick to promote the use of their drugs... and these are real drugs, chemicals mixed in a lab and made into pills. Cannabis grows on the Earth, is completely natural, and, if it were allowed to, could be grown in enough bulk that people would not be forced to mix it with tobacco and get hooked on nicotine, and would be much healthier to smoke.

But people on cannabis are a lot harder to sell lies and propaganda to on the TV as they'll see right through it... and thus the government is keeping these illegal and demonizing them by grouping them with manifactured and more dangerous drugs.

I'd be interested to hear anyone else's opinion on this...

Remember, kids, don't do drugs... not until you're an adult anyway ;-)

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That's a bit of touchy subject round here Johnny, and there's a few threads on this subject already if you do a search. Try not to get offended if a few people jump on your back! wink

Each to their own I say!

Andy

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3 (edited by Barefoot Doc 2005-06-02 12:51:57)

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Fair points Johnny, i smoked cannabis for years and took about 40 or so shroom trips.
I agree they can be eye openers, especially the "philospohical" stage of shrooms. My thoughts are also they can cleave holes in your aura and leave one vulnerable to entities/thought forms etc so they may well be a double edged sword.
I think much of it is down to the individual, remember many brain dead criminals/chavs smoke dope too, lots take it to escape, for sexual reasons etc and many do not find it mind expanding but purley recreational.

Each individual can only judge by experience the value of dope or shrooms to themselves, i gained valuable insights into the way the world  is and shrooms helped me get over a major depression but i feel i dont need them anymore and i was too addicted to pot, it was aslo a form of escape for me.

As i say IMO a double edged sword, i dont take any notice of Government propaganda on the subject. Some of the pysciatric drugs prescibed are far worse than pot for potential side effects and mind damage but the sickness industry and media ignore this fact.

i remember a case of an Australian lad who was a grade 1 student, when his mum found out he smoked pot she took him to a Doctor who pumped him full of drugs, later he had electric shock therapy and now he is a cabbage. He would have been better off on dope.

Kids, say no to drugs unless we are the ones supplying them is the message from the sickness industry.

Its not like we are fractions of the whole but rather versions of the whole.

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marijuana, shrooms, and acid lead me to realizations of the world's illusory state.

im not saying i wouldnt have ever gotten here without 'em, but the fact remains!

i believe there comes a point when you've utlized the "tool" to its full potential, and further indulgence can be detrimental.
thats why ive stopped taking psychadelics a few years ago...

and yes, obviously natural herbs and "drugs" would be safer than manufactured synthetic ones, but dont think the FDA is gonna want to let people know that... oh no, they're content sucking thousands out of perfectly normal "patients" for drugs that haven even been fully tested yet...

"...i was taken by the hand, from the ocean to the sand..."
nitin sawhney - 'eastern eyes'

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Ayahuasca wrote:

That's a bit of touchy subject round here Johnny, and there's a few threads on this subject already if you do a search. Try not to get offended if a few people jump on your back! wink

Each to their own I say!

Andy

Thanks for the heads up, and I apologize if I've cause anyone offence, that is not the intent, it is just a subject I've been thinking about a lot of late.

Thanks,

Johnny

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I agree with the others.  I'm a senior now, but was once a flower child.  Been there done that.  It has it's place and time and is specific to each individual.  I have a daughter with two teens, who watched their husband/father abuse drugs and die.  They have experienced first hand the worst case scenario.  On the other hand, their brother/uncle smokes and is the coolest person around. So they've seen how to use and not abuse too. 

I first started using for enjoyment, then tried to envoke the spiritual side of life.  After having my most meaningful and exciting spiritual experiences whilst totally straight, I decided that the drugs were a crutch at best.

Today I do no drugs, as the need no longer exists.   Most people my age who did drugs just grew out of it.  Those that are still on them are wasted in some way - at least the ones I know.

Enlightenment happens!  Attachment to the ego-self leads one into delusion; but faith in one's Buddha nature leads one to enlightenment.

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JohnnyFuctup wrote:

I've since started having a joint before going to work, and I find myself to be MUCH better, faster and more inspired programmer.

I confirm from experience! No doubt about it! Drugs and computers work together to annihilate our souls! (hint)

a single joint will reset me to the same serine state.

Brave New World? What's wrong with stress and worry anyway? I consider them a call from the soul to wake up. However you'll be hard pressed to know what your soul is telling you as long as you disconnect yourself through computers or drugs...

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ermolai wrote:
JohnnyFuctup wrote:

I've since started having a joint before going to work, and I find myself to be MUCH better, faster and more inspired programmer.

I confirm from experience! No doubt about it! Drugs and computers work together to annihilate our souls! (hint)

a single joint will reset me to the same serine state.

Brave New World? What's wrong with stress and worry anyway? I consider them a call from the soul to wake up. However you'll be hard pressed to know what your soul is telling you as long as you disconnect yourself through computers or drugs...

Well we all have different experiences, and I'm sorry yours were not as positive as mine, but I know for a certainty that I would still be asleep if it wasn't for my dear Dorothy smile

I guess how you make the journey is of less importance than getting actually there. smile

9 (edited by ermolai 2005-06-06 12:31:43)

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Some people have used drugs to wake up, I accept it as a reality and do not try to make them feel guilty about it. I have myself gone through things much worse than this to wake up. However I stand firm on the knowledge that so long as you get attached to these so-called "shortcuts" you'll not go anywhere spiritually (although you might turn around in circles with great "ecstasy") because your spiritual shield will be too weak to fight the inner battle needed to get your soul out of this mess. Anyway, you're free to experience these illusions for as long as you need.

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I didn't start waking up until I took my first bit of mushrooms. For the most part, people are crammed with propaganda and programming as much as the government or controllers can feed them; and its so bad that even the programmed people themselves become their own worst enemy to each other.  I think with how drasticaly people are asleep like I was it may take drastic measures to wake them up.
   I do believe there is some sordof conspiracy with how the government keeps these mind altering drugs illegal.  Because for those who have experienced with them they do lead to questioning/pondering/thinking which from what I can tell is not favorable to the government. The programming starts when your little. Have you ever had people ask you, "What do you want to be when you grow up?".
   By the way I have a quick comment about the statement that drugs leave holes in your aura and make one vulnerable to entities. I must be honest here but this sounds like spiritual propaganda to me. No offense personally but the statement itsself is just.... it really does remind me of the government propganda on drugs; mainly marijuana.

11 (edited by lyra 2005-06-08 18:21:39)

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E3mpirical1 wrote:

By the way I have a quick comment about the statement that drugs leave holes in your aura and make one vulnerable to entities. I must be honest here but this sounds like spiritual propaganda to me. No offense personally but the statement itsself is just.... it really does remind me of the government propganda on drugs; mainly marijuana.

Hate to burst your bubble E3mpirical1, but it's an absolute fact that drugs do spiritual damage to a person and leaves them open to invasion of negative entities.  I have seen this first hand, and I won't go rounds debating it with anyone because I know it to be true.   You can believe what you will, and I don't say this in some effort to "change your mind".   But this is a public messageboard after all, and just as you are free to post the above belief, I am free to post mine and to share what I know about this subject for all those who are reading this exchange and therefore might benefit from it. 

Many NR members are aware of the random snippet references I've made of my brother here and there.  He was a character, there's no other word for it.   Smart but stupid all at the same time;  charming and seductive, hysterically funny and fun to be around yet simultaneously very dark. He was  a criminal, with warrants for his arrest in 4 states. Connecticut, California, Oregon and Washington at last count. He started young, at the age of 10, and didn't pause until he was locked up at age 14 for stealing a gun then going on a convenience store robbing spree; took the money, holed up in a motel with plans to hop the first train into NYC the next morning.  The cops found him after the motel clerk notified police; they surrounded the motel and got him by climbing in through the bathroom window.   When he was finally released at 17 - albeit very reluctantly by the state of Connecticut - he picked up right where he left off with a vengence, all the while going to highschool, charming my dad, the cops and the judges, and pulling straight A's, I kid you not.  I've seen the honors certificates.   (and it's not that they didn't know he was up to "mischief" -- they did.  But my dad became completely helpless to do anything about it, and my brother kept convincing the cops and the judges that he would change.)    Those NR members who are psychically inclined have picked up on his "negative energy" without me ever sharing these particular details.   All I had to do was mention "my brother" and their psychic antennas perked up.   One NR member in particular, who also happens to be the most psychic person I have ever encountered, zeroed in on something which I never told her:

It was the drugs.  The drugs my brother did created what's called an "energy match" for a demonic entity which was attached to him.  And it didn't happen overnight.  It took several years, as demonic attachments often do.  But by the end, it was in full swing.  I never once mentioned the drugs, to her, or ANYBODY at NR (only Tom / montalk knows the story). There was no way for her to know this.   He started at age 10 with harmless cigarettes, which progressed to alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, then heroin, (smoking, not shooting;  he was a needle-phobic) and who knows what else.  He was always self-medicating. We think he was probably manic-depressive, since it runs in our family, and was the reason he swung back and forth between depressants and stimulants.   But man alive did he enjoy the mary jane.   He's the one who showed me what real, good pot was like.  Unfortunately the stuff he smoked was laced with other stuff as well.  I know, because I've smoked regular pot, and then I tried his.  His "wasn't right."  It smelled like a bud, it looked like a glimmering THC soaked bud, but it wasn't *just* a bud.  !

You and others might laugh, but I'm leaving out most of the story.  What's interesting is it's evident in the photos.  I didn't see it back when I lived with him.  Not til I got to Florida (sans my brother) and was buzzed on wine one night, enabling me to finally pull out the pics of my brother under the safety of the alcohol did I see it.   I had many photos of him taken during the 2 year period where he was back in my life....and not one of them show his eyes.  Not one single photo shows both eyes, facing the camera, open.   It was like this moment in a movie, where the lead character has a weird realization and the suspenseful music picks up, louder, as she begins rapidly shuffling through pictures, trying to find one, any one, that shows his eyes. 

None.  In every photo, just as I was about to take the shot, he'd always *just* happen to glance down, away, or turn his head altogether.  Or the rim of his hat would *just* happen to obscure his eyes.  In one picture, I swear to God, the top of the photo cuts out his eyes!  Leaving only the lower portion of his face.   In another, you only see the back of his head with the gang banger handkerchief around his head, and the glowing paranormal orbs floating about his room.    There was one picture I remember taking of him directly facing him head on, full face.................and it didn't come out on the developed roll.  Completely MIA.  How amazingly convenient.  Conversly, I had tons of pics of him as a bright eyed, adorable energetic 10, 11, 12 year old in SoCal, looking squarely at the camera, smiling.  But one night in Portland I did accidentally get one of his eyes in the photo, and it wasn't pretty.   It's a series of 3 photos, and I had an internal voice urging me to "get closer!....closer.....closer....." as I snapped some pics.   The final shot you see his eye, and it's cliche demonic red.  And it ain't "camera red eye", because Adobe photoshop won't remove it.  The pupil itself is red;  not a bright glowing camera red eye red, but an actual natural red.  His skin is corpse white, the face blank.  He looks dead, with this red demon eye and dark shadows underneath.    My coworker's 5 year old daughter had a "dream" the night before my brother was arrested in Portland.  She told me "I had a scary dream last night.....a vampire bit your brother in the heart!"  I asked her to describe the "vampire."  She said, "It was black.  With red eyes!" 

To a 5 year old, that's a "vampire."   To me, that was a demon.   

My brother did a lot of drugs, a LOT.    And all those drugs created some major holes in his aura and left him wide fricking open to attachments of all sorts.   He knew he had attachments though.   He enjoyed it.   He was protective of them.  He didn't want "help" for it, he didn't want them to go.  He called them "hitchhikers."   In a way they were his buddies.  When he was just hanging out in a room he'd tell me that the attachment(s) would leave him to roam about the room, mostly hang around up in the corners.   This was not a kid who was educated in the matters of true paranormal  knowledge or the occult, yet what he described, and the termininology he used to describe it, was exactly what you'll find in Robert Bruce's book "Practical Psychic Self Defense."  The "hitchhikers" looked like a glowing sparkly comet trail, trailing behind him as he walked, that's the only way to describe it.  I've never seen anything like it before.   After a particularly nasty incident with an entity that had finally invaded my room in our paranormal apartment from hell, me and my friend Mike set out to do a cleaning.   My brother got wind of it....oh boy.  The look in his eyes was like looking at the demon itself.  As dramatic as that sounds.   It was very creepy.  I know it gave Mike some pause.    But yeah, my brother slowly sauntered into my room asking "What are you doing?" alarmed and suspicious.   He knew.  He proceeded to lay down on my bed, lounging there quietly, seductively defiant.  He would not budge, and continued to drape himself on my bed, refusing to move, staring long and hard at me with that weird look, I can't desribe it.  It was other worldly, but something very negative.   He was attempting to interfere and stop the cleaning.   I kept telling him to leave....just go....LEAVE....GET OUT....NOW!!!"  But he kept laying there, eyes half open, that weird negative seductive creepy laxidaisal look on his face.   I resorted to screaming at him, but he wouldn't budge.  Only after much screaming did he ever so slowly get up and slowly leave the room, pausing in the doorway to look back at me.   Whatever was in / on him did NOT want me getting rid of the rest of its family.  wink   sad   

And all the while he kept up with the alcohol, the pot, and who knows what else.  Although by the end, he didn't need the drugs and alcohol anymore;  once they've got a strong foothold, they're in.  It's a done deal. 

So you can believe what you want to believe.   If you haven't seen evidence for it, then I can understand why you'd think that drugs wouldn't leave somebody open to entities.   If you must know, when I first moved in with my brother as a roommate I was just coming off being an Atheist for 3 years.  But after one year of living in the "paranormal nightmare from hell" apartment with him, aka, "The Vortex", there was no going back for me.  I didn't know how I could have been so stupid to try to convince myself that there was nothing else beyond this reality.  I saw things that you only see in a Hollywood movie, stuff I've only found mentioned in Robert Bruce's book.  Incredible.  Just absolutely unreal.  I've posted some of my random experiences here and there throughout the forum;  some here may remember them offhand.

So that's that.   Take it as you will......

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!"  - Anonymous
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yea what lyra said ^^

yea it opens you up to negative energies why you think drugs cause lots of people so much pain and they go into downward spirals because of drugs

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Brad462 wrote:

yea what lyra said ^^

yea it opens you up to negative energies why you think drugs cause lots of people so much pain and they go into downward spirals because of drugs

Not everyone...I did drugs growing up.  I never went looking for them, but a lot of the guys I went out with did them, so I would join them occasionally.

For me, it was all experimental, and I've always been too health-conscious to get addicted to anything.  I have to say I did enjoy most of them, except for the heroin which just made me feel sick. These days, I'll take the occasional toke, and a bit of wine, but that's as far as it goes.

It's all about balance, I guess I've always been a pretty balanced individual.

14 (edited by Brad462 2005-06-06 20:28:51)

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yeah ive  got high lots of time too , and i never went too far with them fortunately  . But ive seen what it has done to people close to me my dad and a friend of mine , made their lifes helln the people that cared about them as well.

i dont know.. without drugs we wouldnt h ave some great rock n roll bands like rolling stones beatles led zepplin

"t's all about balance, I guess I've always been a pretty balanced individual."

hehe not me . im looking for something to restore my balance.

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Thanks for the account Lyra. I've also known someone who had clearly "lost her soul" and I later learnt that she had been taking heroin for the past 10 years. It was thanks to this person that I recognized for the first time that "evil" was not mere ignorance, but an active force passing through people disconnected from their essence. From what I've seen, heroin attracts Ahrimanic/"black" demons while LSD attracts Luciferian/"white" demons. Both are just as harmful for the soul, but the "white demons" are much more perverse IMO and it took me a while to recognize this.