Hi, I would like to say that we as humans, have been altering our conciousness for alot longer than we have tried to remain sober. Look at the number one, jesus christ, I am not saying that he did dugs, but he deffinitly was not normal, talking to god, involved with angels, and I bet you if he was alive today, instead of crusifying him they would of sent him to a padded room and gave him enough drugs to break his spirit and make him drool, all by the ones that are respected and thought of as having the answer, like todays doctors.
I am not saying that doctors dont help, but I am saying that , there are no straight lines, and that reality is not definable, and that somtimes things are not as they seem.
Buddha, deffinitly into tripping out,
walt disney, probably was pretty far out
the early hindus, into taking mushrooms,
pretty much every culture has their , drug use, their poets, their artist, their saints, and their , crazies,
i often wonder as us here in america ( the country with the highest number of mental disorders ) do not have a rich enough culture, being only a few hundred years old, and the combination of 20th century doctor / drug technology, have replaced the old ways, of understanding, religous or shamanic experiences, s with our doctor drug gods, that dish out, pills to make us all lock steped into a reality that is not nesicarily, true,
then there are those who say , oh yeah its a disease like diabetes and you better take your meds. Maybe it is , but maybe it not
i bet if ghandi, jesus, leonardo, mozart, da vincci, buddha, einstein, columbus, etc etc etc. Lived in 21st century america, they would of been beleived to have some mental disorder, and been , counseled , drugged, and eventually become somone, that they were not , and I am willing to bet these people would not have contributed to our world in the great ways that they did.
Always take into account,, that drugs change you, effect reality, and alter your perception, yet it be lithium, acid, asprin, weed, depikote, or mushrooms, we have been doing drugs , since the beggining of time, to alter our conciousness,,,far longer than we have not been doing drugs, or doing drugs to become normal,,,,,, remember adam and eve. Eat this apple and your reality will change... The serpant was the first drug pusher.
It has only been the last few decades that our minds have been directed by tests, clinical trials and other humans, as if they absolutly know what true, or false, up, or down, when we live on a spinning sphere
also life allot of times is f ed up,,, we are scarred by situations, child abuse, crappy hormones in the chicken, the god of oprah, how about, the influx of information,,,,,,, look up somthing, and you can find information leading you in 10 different dirrections. What is true, what is right,what is real, is seeming to me to become more and more, difficult to now the truth, and less desired / important, as we let the status quo , become what we difine ourselves and our world by,,,
like now you say you see visions or hear voices talking to you ,,,
you are crazy, see a doctor, and he will, with authority, define you.
But if you had visions and heard voices, in a south american tribe, or were john of the bible, you may be known as a holy man
there has been stories and voices for along time, and it is only recent that we have labled, medicated, and found it to be incorrect. Maybe is that our society says for us all to be the round peg to fit in the round hole, when we all where made all kinds of shapes, but for some reason, differences where not accepted, the status quo was created, and the term wako was implied.
I am just saying, things are still undecided ,,, what is right,,, what is wrong, and what is real, what is unreal, have always been changing, and reality is not static
and somtimes , some doctors, therapy, and meds, do a world of good, and are huge help,
i think it is important to try to think deeper than our current, set of values and ideas,,, rather than, midlessly accepting what you are fed.
Are you a vsionary or are you krazy
these are just some ideas I think about, and welcome your feedback, conversation and ideas, because I think these types of thought are not discussed with an open enough mind, in most situations. Doctors, family, whoever.
Are you the next. Picaso, einstein, prophet,
or
not perfect, incorrect, and out of wack
the poles could shift, any moment
adam