Pot Smoking and Other Spiritual Hazards (Page 4 of 6)

Damn!  There's some setting preventing me from both downloading the link AND viewing the scantily clad chicks!  I'm at my parents house and I'm strictly forbidden from changing settings, reconfiguring hardware, or reformatting hard drives and installing new operating systems. . . 

Guess I'll just have to be patient. . .

Although this thread is actually about pot I want to share some observations I made with drugs on my own. I smoked weed some time ago and it opened up really new ways of perception. As far as I can judge now, it had no detrimental side-effects on my spiritual path… but who knows. I have not used it for about a decade now.
Tobacco has the effect of making my etheric extremely shaky and somehow contracted – with the positive effect of being mentally contracted (concentrated) too. When smoking a cig while being very sensitive it almost feels like an earthquake on the etheric plane. So I bet, smoking tobacco is not the best choice. Alcohol does exactly the opposite of tobacco – it expands the etheric and makes it very "light" and transparent…. Maybe therefore it is called “spiritus" I think these opposing effects make a cigarette so adorable after having drunk a glass of beer or wine. It balances the effect of alcohol. I made an interesting observation after having been quite drunk last New Years Eve: it made me extremely empathic. I was able to sense other persons emotions and physical perceptions extremely clear. But anyway, I think the long-term effects of regular use are surely not beneficial.
The most detrimental “drug" I personally know is sugar. Sounds strange, but it makes my etheric completely weak and heavy when used regularly. Additionally it messes with my heart chakra. It seems to wither totally when using sugar regularly. As a consequence I did eliminate it as far as possible from my food intake.

Maybe he's seen that one has more detrimental affects than the other....?   Maybe once a week meat eating is in fact, less worse than smoking pot, every day, seven days a week.

Doesn't seem so strange to me, but, that's just me.

(And you may not smoke pot seven days a week, but there are those who do.  In fact one of them used to post here at NR...and his seven day a week pot habit showed in his posts! woowee...but, I digress!  haha)

Well, here it is:   You're never going to agree with anybody's viewpoints 100%.  Just because you like Stuart's other work does not make him a God-like guru who can never do or say anything wrong that you might disagree with.

To name two Stuie beliefs that I don't agree with:

- Dissolve the ego and subjegate yourself under everybody else;
- There's nothing wrong with chopping down all the trees and for humans to build build build up in the name of progress;   Global warming is pure bunk.

I give a big "X!" to both of those points.

But I love his other stuff, so, whatever.

Stuart's just a dude, like you.   The problem arises when people forget that and then got all GASP!  Shocked!  when out pops some belief from left field that they don't agree with.

I wrote to another NR'er last year that I LOVE LOVE the fact that he says things that I disagree with!   I love it!  It means he's human. 

It sounds to me like you expect that you're supposed to never find something that he says which disagrees with your own philosophy.  And I suspect you may have encountered this disappointing "slap with reality" in other authors you may have admired, who turned out in the end to have flaws and faults and personality traits that you don't agree with and opinions you disagree with...?   Just guessing.  Could totally be wrong here.  But it is a recurring problem with many people who tend to put their favorite authors on pedestals.   These people are never allowed to be human, never allowed to show their flaws, or have differing "out there" opinions.

Well, no need for the sarcasm, tenetnosce, because I wasn't being sarcastic to you.

And yes, I did agree with you.  You, and others are right about not overly focusing on the physical.

But regarding "inserting in somebody else's name", since you asked..........I "nitpicked" your opening rant not solely because "it was about Stuart Wilde", but because what you were criticizing about Stuie wasn't entirely valid.

Had you inserted somebody else's name, somebody recognizable to me, whose beliefs I'm aware of, and had you written things that were equally wrong/skewed, and which were twisting things around, then YES, I would have challenged you just the same.  And NO I would not have been "Right on T."     Not to be rude, but I have yet to get on here and post "right on!" to anything you've written.  Just not my style.   And it bugs me when I see others doing that.  Seems, oh, I don't know....kind of ass kissing.  Like they don't have the guts to say certain things themselves, and can only wiggle up to others who do have the guts, and then pant their enthusiastic agreement.    "Me too!  Me too!" "Right on!"  "High five!"  Just not me.   But I digress.  Topic for another thread I suppose.   "Message board politics and psychology, 101!"

If somebody's being misrepresented, when faulty logic is being used, when things are being twisted and skewed in a minor or major way, then I'm there to set it right.   That goes for defending myself, you, other NR posters, ANYbody who may be getting the short end of the stick.

Maybe I can be the world's first "logic super hero." 

"Logic Woman."   On a mission to right the wrongs created by skewed perceptions and faulty logic.

j/k

*nods in agreement*

Funny thing.....this isn't even y'all arguing....it's just you all'z pack of meme's! 

Us human seems to come complete with an automated response about two things....Religion, and Drugs.   lol!

Weed:  You can do(or not do) the same shit, just with a lighter mind.  With a tradeoff of having tasks being just a little more physically challenging to complete.  Making you slow down and think.

It convinces you more times than not to do what you REALLY wanna do.  You have to try extra hard to bullshit yourself.

High... you can only do what you love.

Weed helps the people who are real to themselves.....while hindering/stopping the people who have yet to be real.

(If you need to get some grunt work done that you don't love.....don't get high.  Simple as that.)

I'll tell you this....You ain't ever met a fake person that said weed was their drug of choice.

mmm... for me that would be : listening to music...while smoking...or the other way around...