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Dearest Charles,
I was wondering what you thought about drugs to try and achieve totality and bliss a la Timothy Leary?
If the problem in most people is the rigidity of the mind do you see drugs - by definition 'mind altering' as a step on the right track? Or is that definition in itself a belief system?
Ku
Greetings Ku,
Your questions reminded me of an experience I observed in India when I was young.
The devotee (a younger women) was at the ashram meditating. As the old master walked past she proclaims with devotional tears in her eyes "Oh swami I am having a most beautiful vision of Krishna!"
The master is unmoved and replied dryly " Don't worry, just keep on doing the breathing technique I gave you, the vision will soon go away."
And Ku, the old swami was right. To a Master, society itself is but an expanded hallucination of the mind. Of course drugs and breathing techniques induce altered (different) states of hallucinations but they are still "hallucinations" of the mind.
The path to enlightenment - to totality - is beyond the monkey mind, and it's hallucinations and illusions. For example, there has been recorded cases, that babies have been taken (adopted) by monkeys and wolves. These children grew up convinced they were monkeys or wolves. Similarly, you have been "adopted" by society and are convinced by your conditioning that you are a "civilised" member of that society with its inherent belief systems, culture, mass fears and conditioning.
Yet deep inside, at the heart centre, the soul call is to come home to enlightenment. Not to merely "cop out" from society but a fundamental and revolutionary shift in consciousness. Drugs, alcohol, and all of societies other temporary answers to our unquenchable desires, frustrations and fears merely delay the inevitable - The path to enlightenment is everyone's irredeemable gift.
Love always
Charles Goodwin
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