By: Gaurav Singhal
Cannabis (also known as marijuana or pot) has been used for thousands of years as a powerful plant medicine to enhance spirituality. It has also been used as a harmful recreational drug. So, is Cannabis beneficial to spiritual practice, or is it detrimental to spiritual practice?
Pot,
otherwise known as cannabis or marijuana, is considered a spiritual
medicine and has been used as such since 2000 BC because it is a
psychoactive drug. Pot is considered psychoactive because it can alter
one’s state of consciousness. Altering one’s consciousness helps them to
break free of illusion and the restriction of limited perception.
All
plants possess unique energetic frequencies and those frequencies can
teach a new way of thinking and being. Cannabis teaches about a great
many things including: The path of least resistance, oneness, surrender,
release, letting go, present moment, “Livity”, communion, allowing, the
impermanence and illusion of the physical dimension, the frailness of
boundaries, inhibition, the unhealthiness of control, the fear that lies
behind the bold, confident mask of the ego and effortless being.
People
react very differently to cannabis; this is because the vibratory rate
of the plant is in fact what is altering people’s state of
consciousness. An individual human holds a unique vibration. When a
person interacts with cannabis, the vibratory rate of that individual
has to change in order to match the frequency of the cannabis in order
to stay a match to sharing a reality where both the plant and the person
coexist. In shamanic tradition, these psychoactive plants (including
cannabis) were seen as gatekeepers or tunnel guardians between realms.
This matching of frequencies or resonating between person and plant is
called “friending”. Friending the plant, allows you to pass between
realms. This resonance effect drastically increases when the medicine is
ingested. The vibrational resonance causes a cascade of physiological
reactions occur, most especially the inhibition of neurotransmitters. It
inhibits the brain from functioning at normal capacity. This provides a
great deal of relief to many people, who are bombarded by their own
resistant thoughts.
The
brain is a transceiver of information that is designed to create the
illusion of a static 3-D dimension for the purpose of learning. The
physical dimension is a learning hologram. When the transceiver is
affected or inhibited by certain drugs, the illusion of the physical
dimension begins to dismantle and a person can feel or see beyond this
dimension into other dimensions and realities. When the transceiver is
incapacitated, a person is enables to allow more of his or her own pure
being to be fully present and unrestricted. But people react differently
to the plant. The question is…why?
A person reacts differently to cannabis for two main reasons. 1) Because people have different vibratory rates. Your enjoyment of cannabis, or lack there of, is directly related to whether the plant holds a higher vibration than you do, or whether you hold a higher vibration than it does. If the plant holds a higher vibration than you do, you are most likely going to experience a sense of calm euphoria and a dramatic reduction of pain in your body.
A person reacts differently to cannabis for two main reasons. 1) Because people have different vibratory rates. Your enjoyment of cannabis, or lack there of, is directly related to whether the plant holds a higher vibration than you do, or whether you hold a higher vibration than it does. If the plant holds a higher vibration than you do, you are most likely going to experience a sense of calm euphoria and a dramatic reduction of pain in your body.
If your vibratory rate is higher, you
will most likely experience paranoia and other unwanted side effects
from the medicine. 2) Because cannabis is extremely responsive to
intention. It enhances the truth of this reality, which is that
intention directs energy and intention creates your experience. If you
set an intention for what you want cannabis to help you do, it will have
that effect. If you do not, it will respond according to the intention
of your subconscious. This means if your subconscious wants you to know
about something that is plaguing it, or if your subconscious fears the
loss of personal boundaries, taking cannabis will enable your
subconscious to fulfill it’s intention and you will come face to face
with your fears.
The
number one benefit of cannabis is that it helps people to release
resistance. By affecting the brain like it does, it inhibits the brain
from focusing on and translating the resistant, stressful thoughts that
cause a negative emotional response within the body. This is why it is
so effective at reducing stress. And this is also why it is so effective
for the use of pain management.
Pain is a symptom of resistance. By causing a person to release resistance and “flow downstream with life” a person is free to be who they really are. More of their true essence is present in the absence of resistance and this is why people often undergo such intense spiritual experiences while under the influence of cannabis. But this is also why it is used recreationally.
Pain is a symptom of resistance. By causing a person to release resistance and “flow downstream with life” a person is free to be who they really are. More of their true essence is present in the absence of resistance and this is why people often undergo such intense spiritual experiences while under the influence of cannabis. But this is also why it is used recreationally.
As
a spiritual teacher, I cannot fully support nor fully condemn a
spiritual medicinal such as cannabis because the issue of using vs. not
using these medicines is not black and white. It is a case-by-case
scenario. And, all beings, including plants are teachers. If a person
tries to escape their resistance by using a tool like cannabis, they
have learned nothing but to be dependent on the tool. They may have
increased their awareness
of what is beyond this dimension, but they have not learned anything
about how to access states of consciousness beyond the 3-D consciousness
on their own, without the use of an external substance/tool.
In
essence, they have become powerlessly dependent. This is in fact the
number one reason that I do not overtly support the use of spiritual
drugs. While these medicines are often life changing because they can
serve to crack through the illusion of the physical dimension so a
person can peer beyond the illusion, they all too often become a
person’s only way of transitioning their consciousness into a “more
spiritual” state. They then become a crutch that disables a person from
reaching those states organically.
The feeling state created by these
medicines becomes an addiction and the more subtle transition of
increasing one’s vibration and altering one’s focus so as to facilitate
an organic shift in consciousness, no longed registers as a “special and
noteworthy experience” when compared with the intensity of the radical
break from reality, caused by the medicines. So often the drug itself
becomes the person’s only access to spirituality. The drug itself
becomes the religion. Pot
is an addictive substance. A living being will become addicted to
anything they feel dependent on to achieve a certain feeling state. When
a person feels as if feeling good or greater awareness is dependent
upon cannabis, they will become addicted to cannabis. And to become
addicted to cannabis, is to shortcut your own expansion.
Stress and
resistance exists for a reason, to teach you about yourself and to fuel
you in the direction of your own expansion. When you feel resistance
creeping up in your consciousness, there is always an aspect of yourself
that needs to be examined and shifted; and there is always something
new that is being desired. If you escape from that feeling by using
cannabis, you will forgo the opportunity to examine and shift the root
of that resistance. What’s more than that, when the effects of the drug
wear off, you are right back to where you were, having improved nothing
in the long term. In this way, cannabis prevents learning.
Also, with a
decrease in resistance, you will simultaneously experience a decrease in
desire. This decrease in desire causes a decrease in the dopamine
levels in your brain. Dopamine is responsible for the motivation
response within your body. This is why motivation dissipates and apathy
increases when someone uses pot often. Desire is the basis of expansion.
With decreased desire, there is decreased expansion, so it must be said
that chronic pot use thwarts both personal and universal expansion. This is why I am not a person who advocates recreational drug use of any
kind. It is a better idea that a person change their life for the
better (so they no longer feel the desire or need to escape from their
life) than to escape from their life by using cannabis or any other drug
for that matter. However, there is an exception to this rule.
We
create our own reality. And when it comes to chronic pain, or chronic
worry, there is an interesting thing that occurs. Certain kinds of pain
and worry inhibit focus and especially positive focus to such a degree
that a person cannot learn and cannot get out of the downward spiral of
negative reality creation. In such a case, resistance incapacitates a
person. If a person is incapacitated by resistance, (which is the case
when chronic illness has caused chronic pain to occur), cannabis may in
fact be the very best tool that a person can use to enable themselves to
distract themselves from the pain, thereby releasing enough resistance
to come back into a state of alignment.
When this is the case, a
person’s vibration is so low that cannabis is able to help a person to
release enough resistance to enable them to face and explore their own
resistance and therefore shift. But cannabis should never be treated as a
long-term solution to resistance. We need to find the root of our
resistance and pull up that root if we want a long-term solution to
resistance. At
this point in history, a major debate rages over the legalization of
pot. Some people think that pot is a gateway drug, which puts youth at
risk for harder drug use. Others think it is wrong to condone any drug.
They argue that by legalizing a drug, we are essentially condoning the
drug.
I’ve
been asked my opinion on the legalization of pot many times and so I
have decided to put forth my answer. I support the legalization of pot.
In my opinion, making something illegal fuels the use of a substance
more so than making it legal does. The number one addiction for mankind
is not a specific substance; it is the sensation of freedom.
When we break the rules by doing illegal things, we get to rebel and
therefore feel freer. Prohibition never did anything to restrict the use
or sale of illegal substances.
It simply made the trade more life
threatening for both sellers and users. In my opinion, governments have
no place determining what is right vs. what is not right when they have
demonstrated their overt inability to make such decisions, as is proof
by the fact that the government thinks it is right to go to war. In my
opinion, people can and should be trusted to do what is right for
themselves and learn from the consequences of their own actions rather
than be controlled by external forces, including the government.
Not to
mention the fact that he government should have much better things to do
with their time than prosecute people for trying to find relief (which
is what people are doing when they are using drugs). Legalizing
marijuana would reduce our smuggling problem, thus reducing the flow of
American money into international criminal markets. In my opinion, even
though it is a moneymaking business to fine people for illegal drug use,
the government is missing a major opportunity to make even more money
for the country by not legalizing cannabis.
If they legalized and taxed
cannabis, they might not have to shut down so many beneficial government
programs due to their embarrassing financial mistakes. And lastly,
rules in general prohibit people from listening to their own emotional
guidance system and so they prohibit people from discovering right and
wrong within themselves and because of this, they disallow people from
experiencing an organic sense of morality and camaraderie. It is a sad
day when an external government replaces internal self-governing.
Cannabis should be seen as what it is, a tool. It is a tool that is not necessary to spiritual awareness or practice. It is a tool that can help enhance spiritual awareness. It is a tool that should never be a substitute for organic spiritual awareness and practice.
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