Drugs and consciousness
Drugs and consciousness - what’s the correlation? 🍄 What we’re all really searching for is the higher states of consciousness which we are programmed - like homing pigeons - to head towards, there’s an innate knowledge that these states of consciousness are possible, as our birthright.
The allure of drugs is that they appear to provide a means to experience what we innately know we should be feeling, to experience a deep connection with all things, the vividness of nature, the removal of inhibitions, a means to escape the suffering which ensues as a result of a lack of contact with our own inner innate bliss, an overload of stress and a lifetime of impressions scored into the physiology with for some, no means by which to release these stresses. A need to “take the edge off” life. Glimpses of the experience of higher states of consciousness are sometimes described - visual and mental cognitions, hyper clarity, divine ecstasy, super subtle sensory perception, bliss permeating the body. But these states cannot be sustained by a stressed body, which hasn’t been prepared through regular, consistent contact with the bliss state to both experience and sustain, in the eyes open, those states without strain, instead there is a fallout, a come down. When we force the body, there is an aftermath.
Those states can be experienced 24/7 in eyes open daily life - it’s our birthright to progress towards this, and enriches life, our experience and perception of it, in every way. It begins first in meditation. After some time one starts to feel unprecedented levels of bliss in meditation, which feels akin to nights out on ecstasy, only better, because the body is naturally producing its own bliss chemistry without external stimulus and there’s no come down. What occurs instead is a seeping of that bliss into the day, beyond meditation. As the state of consciousness progresses, one begins to see all manner of richness, subtlety, sublime beauty and elegance in all things and a sophistication inherent in all forms and phenomena which was unable to be perceived at lesser evolved states, in a more stressed physiology.
It perhaps feels wonderful from time to time, but the after effects bring anything from dullness to depression and anxiety, lack of motivation to impotence. Naturally occurring bliss brings quite the opposite - innate motivation, fearlessness, dynamism, energy, clarity of thought and unshakeable bliss and fulfilment free from the influence, or the need for, external validation or highs. All it takes is closing your eyes for a juicy rest a couple of times a day on a consistent basis and, after some time, these realities will begin to dawn.
