Let's Talk about Drugs
I do not believe that it is our race, or our religion, our gender, our height, our looks, our job, our sexual orientation, or any other superficial characteristics that define us as human beings. Trumping all these by a country mile, it is our consciousness – the most intimate, precious, sapient, unique and individual part of ourselves – that is really the essence of who and what we are. Indeed, at the deepest level it is what we are – to the extent that if we are not sovereign over our own consciousness then we cannot in any meaningful sense be sovereign over anything else either. For these and many other reasons I strongly oppose the “war on drugs” which, in my view, has created an engine of oppression and control in society by which the State claims the right, purportedly in our own interests, to regulate our very thoughts and inner experiences, and to trespass the sanctum of our consciousness.
I was recently interviewed by Cara Lavan of Knowdrugs.net on the subject of drugs, the drug war, personal freedom and cognitive liberty. The interview, which is embedded here, captures some of the key points that I feel have been neglected, and must be taken into account, if we are ever to get to grips with these issues in society.
- 4-6-11
- Graham Hancock's blog
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let us stop one another from giving the Earth to criminals
Graham makes one of the most important points to be made, that the "powers that be" whosoever they have been, have been, through the criminalisation of consumption of naturally occuring psycho-tropic substances, giving away the power to alter the conscious mind, and giving it away to criminals. No wonder so many youths feel pressed into criminality! The story is the same in any culture and every religion, and from any point of view, and in this I mean to say, that whosoever is that teacher within these substances, the Spirit of the psycho-tropic plants of Earth, whether an Angel or Arch-Angel, a Spirit Being of an indigenous culture, a demon (? demon-strative Angel), or any other of the ways in which human beings have attempted to name and define the super-power-super-spirit existing within experiences of using psycho-tropic substances, . . . . the point is in the lesson, rather than in what and how the lesson was enabled! When the lesson was forced in its transmission, through criminal codes of conduct, it became less expressable, and thus enabling of less status in society. Whoever this spirit is, the lesson is one which cuts through all others, and is for the best future of life on Earth. It is a lesson which harms its learners less, when its means of transmission is removed from criminal contexts. If the Spirits of the plant teachers choose to make their lesson to us this, we will learn it in an undeniable way. No criminality ever could control the lessons within psycho-tropic substances, and yet when the Spirit Beings who can control those lessons, need cut through criminality to deliver the lessons, surely the lesson will not fail to demote criminal processes, and deliver those whose uses of psycho-tropic substances have been with love for Earth.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the reason our teachers in plants, have had to travel through criminal pathways, was for the very reason of learning those pathways, so as to fully dismantle discredit and discontinue such pathways from ever being blessed again!
when end be nigh
We'll let out the sigh
But that was for real
And the best of all deals
The end that began with each feel
Into death being over and real