iDEA'S FROM THE EDGE
±5 Drugs
Yeah, we hear you, drugs can be dangerous. No two ways about it, they can be addictive, plus there are people in uniforms who will lock you in a small room if you use, sell, manufacture or transport the stuff around.
During the past 100 years, our governments have attempted to build an Orwellian type of culture around drugs, enforcing the notion of abuse and crime. They've spent trillions on a propaganda machine called the "war on drugs", and the outcome of this massive investment was...an epic explosion of drugs use!
As the medical benefits of Marijuana become more public, common sense is prevailing. Governments are relaxing legislation, conceding its absurd to outlaw a plant, especially one science proves is medically beneficial to us.
However, not everyone's on the same page, some countries approve drug use medically, others allow small personal use. Some strictly forbid any use, although, within that country, there are regions where it's permitted. The situation is nuts, it's a big mess, where nobody has a scooby-doo what's going on legally.
So here's an idea... let's make all-natural drugs legal, and compulsory for some people!
Okay, let's be crystal, its natural drugs we're talking about here, nothing with man-made substances added.
This is not really a new idea, our ancient relatives knew why we should embrace drugs...
The human history of use stretches back thousands of years. Drugs once played an essential part in our lives in rituals, ceremonies, and passages into adulthood. They helped us connect with nature. Resolve personal dilemmas, and most importantly enhanced our understanding of the world around us.
Okay, please sit back as you read the next paragraph as it may appear off-beat at first...
A course of natural drugs should be compulsory for everyone paid by public funds, administrative personnel, politicians, police, etc.
They would need to obtain a license showing they've taken a course of natural drugs - to be renewed regularly, say every three years.
Shamans, guru's, tribal leaders, kings, queens, philosophers, writers, musicians and many cultures advocated drug use, to seek answers, to discover the inner self, to create and to heal.
Yes, that may sound like spiritual blah blah - but in this crazy, materialistic, corporate, money-grabbing, vanity soaked world, don't you think the people we pay to organise and govern, would benefit from a touch of humanity and honesty?
We all need a reset from time to time. Yes, there is a reset button, but we keep looking in the wrong places - like alcohol, hobbies, holidays and such. This only pause the system. A week or two later, you revert to the previous patterns.
To hit that reset requires a significant event. Such as childbirth, near-death experience, a death in the family, divorce. The system needs a jolt. Natural drugs help induce this essential connection. To blow away the cobwebs, unblock the senses and open the mind. It generates the opportunity to make adjustments.
Your brain produces the chemical DMT every night, it's in those beautifully crazy dreams. Ayahuasca retreats around the world are soaring, Because people are interested in developing themselves outside the usual channels. They are actively seeking a fundamentally life-changing experience to improve themselves.
Serious studies into psychedelics have finally been permitted, with research already suggesting Ayahuasca can lead to significant increases in mindfulness abilities and promotes neurogenesis (the growth of new brain cells). Research is taking place into how controlled doses of LSD, can help with depression and terminal illness, as it unlocks the mind.
Schools should be teaching the positives and negatives of drugs from say age 13, giving our children a better understanding of how drugs may affect your life, both for good or bad. We've tried decades of frightening them - perhaps its time for real education.
There are already centre's, where adults can go and experience natural drugs with the guidance of a qualified person, trained to various levels, a bit like a gym trainer or psychiatrist. For personal development or issues, you wish to address.
Two realities...
1. Drugs for pleasure or as an escape from life challenges can be harmful. Running away from problems never works out well. It smoulders inside and manifests in other parts of your life. This will undoubtedly reduce your life experience. Taking drugs for pleasure is super fun, but once it becomes a pattern, your brain craves that surges of endorphins, so it gets harder to feel socially fulfilled without them.
2. Natural drugs can help us medically, unblocking us in many ways. Far more importantly, they seem to empower us to behave with respect for each other and for our planet. Not only are we discovering this scientifically, but we have thousands of years of human experience to back this up. Almost every civilisation used natural drugs for progress, and we did too until our governments went to war against drugs around 100 years ago.
Perhaps the most compelling aspect of this idea is natural drugs may be able to help us, by getting the people in power to move away from making decisions based on what benefits them and begin taking actions that improve us as a civilisation.
These are a few meditative reflections on an intriguing topic from 3000monks
Not to induce a For or Against debate or create a footballism attitude where you must take sides...its merely an idea
winter 2017
© for permission to use our words simply ask
±5 Drugs
Yeah, we hear you, drugs can be dangerous. No two ways about it, they can be addictive, plus there are people in uniforms who will lock you in a small room if you use, sell, manufacture or transport the stuff around.
During the past 100 years, our governments have attempted to build an Orwellian type of culture around drugs, enforcing the notion of abuse and crime. They've spent trillions on a propaganda machine called the "war on drugs", and the outcome of this massive investment was...an epic explosion of drugs use!
As the medical benefits of Marijuana become more public, common sense is prevailing. Governments are relaxing legislation, conceding its absurd to outlaw a plant, especially one science proves is medically beneficial to us.
However, not everyone's on the same page, some countries approve drug use medically, others allow small personal use. Some strictly forbid any use, although, within that country, there are regions where it's permitted. The situation is nuts, it's a big mess, where nobody has a scooby-doo what's going on legally.
So here's an idea... let's make all-natural drugs legal, and compulsory for some people!
Okay, let's be crystal, its natural drugs we're talking about here, nothing with man-made substances added.
This is not really a new idea, our ancient relatives knew why we should embrace drugs...
The human history of use stretches back thousands of years. Drugs once played an essential part in our lives in rituals, ceremonies, and passages into adulthood. They helped us connect with nature. Resolve personal dilemmas, and most importantly enhanced our understanding of the world around us.
Okay, please sit back as you read the next paragraph as it may appear off-beat at first...
A course of natural drugs should be compulsory for everyone paid by public funds, administrative personnel, politicians, police, etc.
They would need to obtain a license showing they've taken a course of natural drugs - to be renewed regularly, say every three years.
Shamans, guru's, tribal leaders, kings, queens, philosophers, writers, musicians and many cultures advocated drug use, to seek answers, to discover the inner self, to create and to heal.
Yes, that may sound like spiritual blah blah - but in this crazy, materialistic, corporate, money-grabbing, vanity soaked world, don't you think the people we pay to organise and govern, would benefit from a touch of humanity and honesty?
We all need a reset from time to time. Yes, there is a reset button, but we keep looking in the wrong places - like alcohol, hobbies, holidays and such. This only pause the system. A week or two later, you revert to the previous patterns.
To hit that reset requires a significant event. Such as childbirth, near-death experience, a death in the family, divorce. The system needs a jolt. Natural drugs help induce this essential connection. To blow away the cobwebs, unblock the senses and open the mind. It generates the opportunity to make adjustments.
Your brain produces the chemical DMT every night, it's in those beautifully crazy dreams. Ayahuasca retreats around the world are soaring, Because people are interested in developing themselves outside the usual channels. They are actively seeking a fundamentally life-changing experience to improve themselves.
Serious studies into psychedelics have finally been permitted, with research already suggesting Ayahuasca can lead to significant increases in mindfulness abilities and promotes neurogenesis (the growth of new brain cells). Research is taking place into how controlled doses of LSD, can help with depression and terminal illness, as it unlocks the mind.
Schools should be teaching the positives and negatives of drugs from say age 13, giving our children a better understanding of how drugs may affect your life, both for good or bad. We've tried decades of frightening them - perhaps its time for real education.
There are already centre's, where adults can go and experience natural drugs with the guidance of a qualified person, trained to various levels, a bit like a gym trainer or psychiatrist. For personal development or issues, you wish to address.
Two realities...
1. Drugs for pleasure or as an escape from life challenges can be harmful. Running away from problems never works out well. It smoulders inside and manifests in other parts of your life. This will undoubtedly reduce your life experience. Taking drugs for pleasure is super fun, but once it becomes a pattern, your brain craves that surges of endorphins, so it gets harder to feel socially fulfilled without them.
2. Natural drugs can help us medically, unblocking us in many ways. Far more importantly, they seem to empower us to behave with respect for each other and for our planet. Not only are we discovering this scientifically, but we have thousands of years of human experience to back this up. Almost every civilisation used natural drugs for progress, and we did too until our governments went to war against drugs around 100 years ago.
Perhaps the most compelling aspect of this idea is natural drugs may be able to help us, by getting the people in power to move away from making decisions based on what benefits them and begin taking actions that improve us as a civilisation.
These are a few meditative reflections on an intriguing topic from 3000monks
Not to induce a For or Against debate or create a footballism attitude where you must take sides...its merely an idea
winter 2017
© for permission to use our words simply ask
