This last week in response to my last post on the perfect diet for spirituality,
we were completely inundated with questions about
psychotropic drugs and other non-food based supplements.
So, today I am going to do a segment on this Ask Teal episode
about the use of drugs and spirituality.
This is a very heated subject so I expect to see some comments on this video,
polarized one way and the other, which is usually what happens.
In the beginning when mankind, shamans and medicine men began asking for expanded
awareness and how to know its true origins and expanded perception, they were
led in these spiritual journeys to the plants which would aid in this discovery.
Plants like the leaves of the Justicia Pectoralis plant down in South America.
So for example, that’s how shamans were originally led to the plant Ayahuasca,
or the medicine Ayahuasca, is through their spiritual journey.
They were then led to a walkabout in the middle of the woods where they came
upon this plant and were told what to do with it and then how to use it.
So, many of these mind-altering Entheogen drugs, the drugs which expand your
spiritual awareness, are really the result of spiritual evolution in general.
So, I think I will start out by listing these drugs, the Entheogen type drugs,
to help you understand what we are talking about.
So, when we are talking about Entheogens, and drugs that assist with
spiritual transformation, we’re talking about drugs like Ayahuasca, Peyote,
Mushrooms, Salvia Divinorum, Arola, there’s Yopo Snuffs, Cannabis
of course, Ambrosia, Opium, Kaikian, Iboga, Soma, Detoura....
Of course, there is more but I am doing a brief list.
But when you are talking about synthetic compounds, you are talking
about DMT, LSD, MDMA, Psilocybin, DPT, and Mescaline.
As far as I am going to inform you, I think it is important
to take drugs in their most natural form.
The reason for this is because what you are going for when you are using the tool
of any type of an Entheogen, is the full vibration of the plant,
because you are looking to be educated.
You are looking for your perception to be expanded.
And in my personal opinion, the synthetic compounds....
So for example, if you were to take DPT just by itself,
out of the plants that it comes from, you would be getting a different
experience than you would, if you were to take the natural plant.
Because...the vibration of a separate portion of something
is not the same thing as the vibration of the totality. It’s like saying
that you could experience human blood and experience what a human is.
It’s an entirely different experience.
And so, the separate compounds of these natural plants are going
to be much different than the plants themselves.
So, if you are going to be inspired towards taking any type of an Entheogen,
it’s really, really important for you
to get the most natural kind of plant that you can possibly find.
It’s also incredibly important that you find somebody who is knowledgable
to help you through the process.
Someone who does not see drugs as a recreational thing
or drugs as a means to escape.
These types of substances are incredibly toxic.
It’s the kind of thing where that which poisons, can also heal,
but if you are using them in high enough doses, if you’re using them often,
the effects it can have on the body are absolutely detrimental.
So, it’s really important to find somebody who is knowledgable about it, and the
intention with which you are going towards drugs is the most important part of it.
If you are going towards drug as a means of escape,
it’s going to yield negative results.
But if you’re going towards this experience with the true intention to gain
further perception, then it is very likely that they will yield positive results.
I will never condone drugs for recreational use.
I will never condone them on a daily basis.
There is no such thing as a drug which can be used on a daily basis
which is good for the body.
So, the purpose is incredibly important when you are going towards
any type of an Entheogen.
They are not meant to help you escape from your life,
they are meant to help you expand your awareness of the universe at large.
That being said, you are probably never going to run into a situation
where I tell you, me personally, as a practitioner, that you should go take
any of these Entheogen type drugs, because these Entheogens are a tool.
They are not necessary for spiritual expansion, especially not now in the
2012 shift. Part of this shift that is going on in the universe is that as
vibrations increase, we have more access because physical reality is less dense.
We have more access to these truths and these types of awarenesses on our own.
The entire goal, and if you talk to any Shaman, they are going to tell you that,
the goal of any of these Entheogen type drugs is to use it as a crutch
or a tool to in order to open yourself up.
But then the goal of all shamans, of all people, really, is to get to the point
where you are able to access these kinds of awarenesses that you can get
through Entheogens by yourself.
You can get to them at will, you can get to them by directed focus,
and by mastered consciousness.
So, if you go down and you partake in an Ayahuasca ceremony in South America,
you will note that the Shamans who are aiding this journey no longer need
the aid of the Ayahuasca plant in order to reach the exact same levels of awareness.
Because once you gain access, once you are aware of the vibrational rate
of these different dimensions, it’s much easier to get there.
And then you can induce it yourself.
But it is possible to achieve any of this awareness,
any of these dimensional experiences on your own.
Does it take longer? Probably.
But at the same time, any time you use a crutch you can get quite dependent on it.
And then you are chasing the experience,
which is what I see a lot in spiritual communities.
People, instead of understanding that these Entheogens can open
the door to spirituality, they see them as the only way they can get to spirituality.
And then it becomes something where they keep chasing the experience,
and chasing the experience, instead of doing the real work of releasing
resistance, the real work of personal evolution in order to be able to have
access to all these different truths and all these different dimensions.
So I would say, follow your intuition.
If you feel like these Entheogens could help you in your spiritual quest,
then try it out.
By all means, you should find somebody who really knows how to utilize
these substances with real spiritual purpose, who has a lot of experience.
Save up the money. It’s worth doing this the right way.
If you don’t feel compelled towards them, there is no reason you should take them.
So, as always, I feel like a broken record saying that you should follow
what your emotions are telling you is right for you.
But if you have a particular attachment to a drug which I watch quite a bit
in the spiritual community as well, people who are incredibly intent on
defending the spiritual aspect of the daily use of something like Cannabis.
Those people who I meet who are in that stand point are usually defending
something that they don’t want to go near. And any time,
you are in the state of defense, it means that you don't have a solid
vibration to stand on in terms of where you are in your own personal capabilities.
So that is my 4-1-1 on Entheogens and use in spiritual awareness.
I’m sure I’m going to get some exciting comments, so I welcome them,
and I’m excited to talk to you next week.
I’m sorry that this week we are posting on Sunday instead of on Saturday.
The power went out at my house yesterday, so I had no access to the computer,
but we’ll try not to make that mistake again.
So have a good week and until next time. see you later.
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