The God Of Drugs
Its new years day, and I’m nursing a hangover. Hot tea, first cup with caffeine, second cup without, I’m drinking tea because I read somewhere that the body digests water faster when it’s warm, and thusly your system can oxidize the alcohol quicker when the body is being flushed out with quick-moving warm water.
They (whoever they are) tell me not to trust most of what I read, but in this case the information seems to present itself as being utterly true. Every time I’ve taken this method, my hangover is cured in a matter of hours, and the caffeine leaves me feeling inspired to type out page after page of whatever happens to be on my mind at the time.
A friend once told me that there is a theory about how the Renaissance was started by people ingesting caffeine; I’m wont to believe every word of it. Look at all the great artists who guzzle coffee and smoke cigarettes. Cigarette smoke makes you metabolize caffeine at an accelerated rate, and thus, makes your caffeine high twice as potent. And with a more potent high, comes the beautiful, artful consequences of a sped-up mind working to its full potential. -namely, good art.
Now don’t think I’m an advocate of excessively dosing yourself with coffee, tea and cigarettes, but do know that I’m saying: any drug has its use for good, if done at the right times and in the right dosages, and for the right amount of time.
In all of the Devil’s attempts to create pleasure, he has created none. The pleasures made are only that of God, the best the Devil(s) can do is to make us push a pleasure to the point of excess (take last night’s sake binge for instance) and make us turn a good thing into an evil one.
Take Aldous Huxley’s pro-drug ideology-he envisions the day when men of science have crafted the perfect drug for spiritual consumption: it takes the mind out of it’s physical limits so that men might open their eyes to the spiritual, it lasts a very short time, so that unlike so many other drugs of the same type (peyote, mescaline) it doesn’t keep your mind altered for so long that you lose the memory of most of the insights you gain. Also, it leaves no hangover and does not affect motor skills.
This is an idealist drug, but too hard to market. In a society forced to frown upon drug consumption that isn’t regulated for some supposed medicinal use, it’s hard for people, and especially drug manufacturers, to see the purpose of marketing a drug that works in reversal of everything the druggists create drugs for-what is the economic value of a drug that is: non-addictive, is not manufactured to eliminate the symptoms of a disease, but the disease itself, and which does not paralyze of the mind of it’s consumers, but elevates it to modes of thought greater than what would have been perceived without it?
I know this is an old argument, but it’s a good one.
Definitely, it is better for a man of a religious/philosophic persuasion to grow in ethical enlightenment by natural means of intellect, but let’s face it-many men and women are born with the apparent inability to see beyond their cage of matter. It is for many, a complete impossibility to perceive things beyond the visible and the invisible. This is not something be ashamed of: take for instance fasting…many religious men in the past have fasted to create the same lack of glucose in their brain that is created by drug consumption, to see into levels of existence they might not have otherwise known.
If a person cannot, without help, see into the realm of the spiritual, they cannot begin to understand the worth of things spiritual-so then, let them seek what help they can find. It’s better that a man come to God, and ask God to reveal the spiritual to him-but of the person who is already a materialist, yea, an atheist, what good is the vague notion of God, in whom he does not yet believe? You have to meet the materialist of his own grounds: materialism.
Drugs are material, “real”, something the materialist can believe in. A prayer to an atheist is just words delivered up to an empty sky, but the drug, if they can be persuaded to consume it, will offer up some real, material proof, that there are things to be felt and understood beyond their meager daily perceptions of what constitutes the “real” and the “make believe” in life.
Of course not all drug-takers will believe everything they saw or experienced in their altered states, some will write it off as being an accidental side-effect of the drug, a warping of the mind to try and fulfill its own desires of having things it can not possibly have in the, “real”, material universe.
But watch how few of these “non-believers” will ever raise the question, “what if the spiritual universe exists right against the edge of the material universe, where the “warping of the mind” is the natural consequence of the material intellect, trying to cope with the new, immaterial universe of which it yet knows nothing?”
Some users of drugs, and people who work with dreams, after they become more and more familiar with the immaterial environment, begin to learn to manipulate it, and even to travel in it, brining back tidbits of what they learned in the otherworld. No doubt, if you or I were as fervent as other men and women who seek after things spiritual, we should know the spiritual world better, and thusly, we should become better ourselves.
I pray God that we should not always be sheep without a shepherd.
They (whoever they are) tell me not to trust most of what I read, but in this case the information seems to present itself as being utterly true. Every time I’ve taken this method, my hangover is cured in a matter of hours, and the caffeine leaves me feeling inspired to type out page after page of whatever happens to be on my mind at the time.
A friend once told me that there is a theory about how the Renaissance was started by people ingesting caffeine; I’m wont to believe every word of it. Look at all the great artists who guzzle coffee and smoke cigarettes. Cigarette smoke makes you metabolize caffeine at an accelerated rate, and thus, makes your caffeine high twice as potent. And with a more potent high, comes the beautiful, artful consequences of a sped-up mind working to its full potential. -namely, good art.
Now don’t think I’m an advocate of excessively dosing yourself with coffee, tea and cigarettes, but do know that I’m saying: any drug has its use for good, if done at the right times and in the right dosages, and for the right amount of time.
In all of the Devil’s attempts to create pleasure, he has created none. The pleasures made are only that of God, the best the Devil(s) can do is to make us push a pleasure to the point of excess (take last night’s sake binge for instance) and make us turn a good thing into an evil one.
Take Aldous Huxley’s pro-drug ideology-he envisions the day when men of science have crafted the perfect drug for spiritual consumption: it takes the mind out of it’s physical limits so that men might open their eyes to the spiritual, it lasts a very short time, so that unlike so many other drugs of the same type (peyote, mescaline) it doesn’t keep your mind altered for so long that you lose the memory of most of the insights you gain. Also, it leaves no hangover and does not affect motor skills.
This is an idealist drug, but too hard to market. In a society forced to frown upon drug consumption that isn’t regulated for some supposed medicinal use, it’s hard for people, and especially drug manufacturers, to see the purpose of marketing a drug that works in reversal of everything the druggists create drugs for-what is the economic value of a drug that is: non-addictive, is not manufactured to eliminate the symptoms of a disease, but the disease itself, and which does not paralyze of the mind of it’s consumers, but elevates it to modes of thought greater than what would have been perceived without it?
I know this is an old argument, but it’s a good one.
Definitely, it is better for a man of a religious/philosophic persuasion to grow in ethical enlightenment by natural means of intellect, but let’s face it-many men and women are born with the apparent inability to see beyond their cage of matter. It is for many, a complete impossibility to perceive things beyond the visible and the invisible. This is not something be ashamed of: take for instance fasting…many religious men in the past have fasted to create the same lack of glucose in their brain that is created by drug consumption, to see into levels of existence they might not have otherwise known.
If a person cannot, without help, see into the realm of the spiritual, they cannot begin to understand the worth of things spiritual-so then, let them seek what help they can find. It’s better that a man come to God, and ask God to reveal the spiritual to him-but of the person who is already a materialist, yea, an atheist, what good is the vague notion of God, in whom he does not yet believe? You have to meet the materialist of his own grounds: materialism.
Drugs are material, “real”, something the materialist can believe in. A prayer to an atheist is just words delivered up to an empty sky, but the drug, if they can be persuaded to consume it, will offer up some real, material proof, that there are things to be felt and understood beyond their meager daily perceptions of what constitutes the “real” and the “make believe” in life.
Of course not all drug-takers will believe everything they saw or experienced in their altered states, some will write it off as being an accidental side-effect of the drug, a warping of the mind to try and fulfill its own desires of having things it can not possibly have in the, “real”, material universe.
But watch how few of these “non-believers” will ever raise the question, “what if the spiritual universe exists right against the edge of the material universe, where the “warping of the mind” is the natural consequence of the material intellect, trying to cope with the new, immaterial universe of which it yet knows nothing?”
Some users of drugs, and people who work with dreams, after they become more and more familiar with the immaterial environment, begin to learn to manipulate it, and even to travel in it, brining back tidbits of what they learned in the otherworld. No doubt, if you or I were as fervent as other men and women who seek after things spiritual, we should know the spiritual world better, and thusly, we should become better ourselves.
I pray God that we should not always be sheep without a shepherd.