Stink

This article is preparing the population for the legalising of cannabis - perhaps in ways that serve global corporate agenda which usually operates a negative consolidation of power and wealth.

Super strong cannabis responsible for quarter of new psychosis cases
Risk of developing psychosis up to five times greater for those who smoke 'skunk' cannabis every day

If a recreational drug is used as an enhancement rather than a replacement for social or creative activity then it is not being used to serve an agenda of escaping fear in such a direct way (allowing that social activity itself can be used as an escape from unfaced fears).

But when the desire is to 'get completely out of one's head' in a way that peers may reinforce as a positive or self-loving act - then it generally 'wears off' so as to require increasing dosage or potency. And so for those who normalise to such dosage, there seems to be no issue.

However, running away from fear - whether via drugs, workaholism, or any other kind of identity forming conditioning, can ONLY result in reinforcing the fear that the act of running away ITSELF, validates. To be dissonant, wilful, defended and reactive is the state that then is magnified and reflected as one's experience and this spiral either brings one to wake up from self-harm to a self-valuing or to various forms of collapse and dysfunction.

The world as we perceive and communicate it feeds the desire to escape or defend or deny, because in significant sense we are all 'running away from unfaced fear' and this is resulting in waking or collapse and dysfunction.

IF you included alcohol as part of your family and social recreational life, would you want the strongest option to be the one your aspiring children are introduced to. It isn't as simple as that because it is not just the potency. There are particular harmonics of effect to a 'high' and all dope is not the same but simply weaker or stronger.

Generally I believe one is well served to avoid processed foods and substances and to prefer the natural original living plant that has grown with the minimum of adulteration or contamination as a result of agendas that are not about fulfilling service, but manipulating outcomes.

It is unsurprising that a manipulative consciousness attracts manipulators.

Consciousness Itself is a wholeness of being and opening this realisation will naturally release outer dependencies in favour of a 'cup that runneth over'. Joy is our true nature and desire but we have a 'funny way of defining that circa 2015.

Of course, subject to consequences, one is free to do whatever one chooses. There are ALWAYS consequences. Living from a fear-defined sense of self will 'OUT' itself - but the messenger is not the message.

Attacks on the person and displacement of our true living responsibility onto external agencies is the way we ARE tending to define our joy. One might say that something stinks in this - but peer pressure may redefine the stink to be this scapegoat or that scapegoat and indeed war about it so as to be successfully distracted from the stink.

This is just my reflection. Test everything you read for what resonates to your heart's truth. I don't seek to persuade. We are each uncovering our own life - and yet together share it, positively or negatively. Fear denies true choice and so sooner or late one has to choose not to use it to hide in - or from. In one's own timing.

Fear and loathing in the war on Consciousness

Fear and loathing in the War on Drugs | Western Morning News

The issues of using or abusing drugs - legal or illegal - are one example of where the PERCEPTION of events is coercively asserted upon the actual relations, and this device IS very similar in kind to certain aspects of drug use itself.
ALL issues have a root in what I call 'consciousness issues' but that simple and direct fact is obscured by a kind of thinking to which humanity as a whole has become addicted and identified with. The mask or persona is - let's face it - not what we are - yet exclusively identifying in it, operates a split minded, coercive and fearfully confused struggle of an existence that has painful or indeed joyless and dreary aspect from which we then seek escape or mitigation of symptoms by various means including various substances. There is a psychology of seeking 'outside oneself' for the life and love and connection that is NOT accepted or recognized in oneself - as the gift of presence that we actually bring TO our relationships.
Fear is the 'enemy' of consciousness WHEN we seek to use it coercively, when we seek to hide in it or hide it from our awareness.
We can all have opinions as to particular takes on the complex interrelatedness of life and fear issues working themselves out or being denied such healing, but opinions do not listen or really relate - for they are investments and assertions of persona. Of course we have investments - because we care for what we value. Fear of pain or loss can inhibit ANY movement to more truly align with What Is - instead of defending and asserting perceptual propaganda. Belief in gain and pleasure can override ANY movement of a truly connected knowing - IF it is unchallenged.
Look and see that a set of cultural and personal definitions determines or dictates ALL outcomes despite the personal spin in which we seem to operate as a sense of warring and competing powers who thus work out a 'personal salvation' as if to be separate independent existences. That fantasy is never true - but it is truly experienced.
If such 'control mentality' were to be identified and replaced with a truly aligned willingness for relationship and communication - of an honest owning of our fears and desires - then each and all of us are needed, for we all play a unique and integral part. The desire for a 'special' sense of self comes from a lack of truly felt love of life. Humanity does not HAVE to deny its true life in preference for a dream of wealth, power or excitement that then evaporates to leave a hollow and joyless existence within an ever tightening mask. True choosing is not framed by fear, but observes the fear and discerns its nature.
If the movement for reform is actually being directed by the drive for opening and growing markets, and pharmaceutical 'answers' (markets), amidst diminishing opportunities (failed market manipulation), then the cards are not all on the table and the findings of such as Dr Nutt are being used to serve hidden agenda. This sort of thing is normal  but unnatural.
I write here to invite consciousness responsibility. It is not without challenge but the reward is blessed. If we are the poor in Spirit, it is because we forget to be and share our true presence, but that doesn't mean it is not present as our true inheritance to BE accepted. Learning must be allowed, and mistakes are inherent to discovery and true integration. Worry and fear operate destruction to a true appreciation, lending only to the 'dark arts' of a deceptive manipulation or outright coercion.
To extend love and trust one has to have it - or an active willingness to learn and share it together.
Transitional process is wise in shifting from one set of beliefs to another.
Give unto Caesar what such residual belief needs - but no more. And wean from it by leaning to the alignment and allegiance in life lived truly. If we cannot feel connection and embrace in our existence, it is because we choose to focus elsewhere. No blame in where we chose amiss. But a true capacity to choose anew.

It's a racket

(Further reflections on the consciousness issues within the criminalisation/legalisation of drugs)

Oh blame is a fine thing! (not).
Underneath all of this is whether we choose to trust ourselves to relate, learn, and communicate in integrity, or whether we dont. If we dont, then we limit and coerce learning to fit in a coercive version of relationship and then propagandize it as if it works. It does work, if hiding from fear is the real need to be met.
'Protecting people from their learning' is more dangerous than anyone seems to realize.
It IS appropriate to protect children - but to wean them as they rise in their own explorations and capacities to balance responsibility as their consciousness.
The 'State' has become the 'parent' that now seeks to perpetuate dependency and propagate the idea that we are all so easily hurt, offended, damaged, that natural being is denied - and with that I assure you unnatural forces manipulate the 'State' to suck out all the wealth of cultural inheritance to evaporate in a passing and unquenchable appetite.
Cultural values are established by living them - not hiding in them as if they are a template to dress up in and mask a lack of true foundation.
There IS a huge demand for technologies/means to support the desire to remain UNconscious of a lack of true foundation, and so there is a huge market - which operates as a racket.
The answer is to bring everything into the light of a true foundation - which is uncovered in a willingness of communication itself - both intimate to our own consciousness and among ourselves in shared purpose.
The thinking of the world will say we are not ready,  we cannot cope, we will be swept away by chaos, we will suffer great loss - and will do this by projecting onto others who are made the stooge for not being honest to one's own fear. Without honesty of consciousness, the mask imposes itself upon consciousness and creates the lack of Life that then seeks distraction and escape.
However... the mask IS disintegrating because the control mentality CANNOT control Life - and never will. The WISH to identify exclusively with a control mentality is what actually sets up the interference that then demands a control mentality. It's a racket.
Putting 'vulnerable' onto others is a displacement projection of un-owned fear. BUT those who have been fed and accepted such identity need a process of transitional support to wean from dependency and powerlessness into a culture of communication in shared worth.
How afraid are we? Afraid enough to crucify truth wherever it would expose us?
The psuedo-scientific promise of controlling systems so as to sanitize and anaesthetize the 'messy psycho-emotional energetic territory of transformation reveals the control mentality behind it, pretending to operate as 'protector or guide'. It is fear at cost of wholeness which fear inherently denies, until owned and transformed.

Drug rackets and consciousness

For some time I have been seeing the signs of changes in drug laws that feel top-down rather than a response to bottom up pressure.
This was one today in a media promoted debate of sorts


Is there a larger directed change going on here?
"War on drugs", like "war on terror" is all about giving power to the mask in order to deny the realities that are then supposed to be exterminated, invalidated, denied, concealed.
fear calls on fear to protect itself from fear.

Coming out from the mask is the only way to own the choices that give rise to the outcomes we SAY we don't want or have conflicts or fears about what our choices bring forth. One cannot communicate within the mask or indeed to it.

Life is not fixed down as any prevailing power asserts it to be - including the power of our own core beliefs and self definitions as to who we are in relation to any situation in our world.

Giving power to the mask is to be tyrannized by that which was initially invoked to protect. Coercive interventions in our materially-energetic world, our social interaction and cultural development, our biology and our self-definitional template - all tend to operate a segregative disconnecting agenda that reinforces its originating premise of a fearful or negatively interpreted condition.

The fear which divides and conflicts and suppresses Life then sets up the market for controlling the demand that then automatically arises for distractions of escape, for mitigations of pain, for the power to validate and support the out of true.

There is a VAST amount of money in drugs legal and illegal. Vast flows of money-energy transfer are associated with corruption at every level. Even moral arguments are attractive when the alternatives cost more than the risks of NOT shifting control modalities.

Dark money - unlike dark energy or dark matter - is not just a Black hole in the model that doesn't exist in the terms the model sets - but is similar in that it's not supposed to be going on but actually runs so much of what also goes on behind the scenes.

There is a larger debate than is ever allowed to be framed by the media and that is to open up a real conversation about consciousness, existence itself. True foundations are not a 'spiritual nicety' for those on Maslow's pyramid - but is core foundational pragmatism of means and ends.
To corrupt one's integrity in order to get some temporary hit, in complete disregard for consequence - will still meet consequence. Freedom is not freedom from consequence or learning would be impossible and no meaningful direction available.

Re-integrating cooperatively and separating (in order to then control) pull in mutually exclusive directions and cancel each other out. A house divided cannot stand.
Choosing to believe that people are incapable of managing their own affairs and must be conditioned, managed and herded for their own protection is a self-fulfilling choice. As is the extension of faith and worth that chooses to operate from the belief that we can live out from a true sense of worth and share and grow it by being true to ourselves. Finding what we need as and when when we need it rather than imagining what worry feeds us to be true and losing what we have NOW to appreciate and grow.

To unlock the MORE of You - don't sell your Soul - uncover it!

An article : On modafinil

Up all night on the drug that never sleeps

Law of karma? Not at all. What you give out you get back.
If you get from 'outside' instead of bringing forth from within, then you 'give' your power away to the 'outside' and what makes you high will then also make you low.

I am going to reveal a great secret here. To actually open a desire to do something and accept and embrace it without letting your thinking interfere is to open a channel for Life to express and embody through.

Currently it appears you do not actually or wholly want to write your article and so your mentality creates the resistance and distortions or blocks to its unfolding. Just try embracing a true desire as the movement of Life and see that - in a sort of way - your brain and body is ALREADY a drug factory that aligns to support your intent and desire when simply trusted and clearly held.

Now you do have to actually WANT something - so if actually you have no interest or motivation, then that itself speaks of the action as itself a distraction or block to something you DO want.

The mental presumptions of beliefs and definitions that create the experience of the world that is lived and sort of shared without any real intimacy - express a sense of inadequacy and lack that demands  'external' manipulations of one kind or another to enable a sense of self-validity, and so the market works to provide them - and magnifies the sense of invalidity so as to be able to sell more of its product or service for your enhancement and protection.

What one chooses to think or belief or oneself and reality becomes a part of what one gives out - and cannot NOT be the measure of what one receives. This is really just the immutable nature of MIND. You may imagine and construct a sense of self with a mind that seems different, but this doesn't change what mind is - only what you are using it for.

Using a communication device to distort,  filter or block communication can create a sense of disconnection, division and conflicted self and world - but the mind remains a communication device and available for that function because that Is its functionality.

What I am saying is that the ego-sense of self in persona, tends to become a block to our own true communication. Yet in trusting what we are truly moved to do, we do not lack character or authority at all.

The difference is one of letting or yielding into the movement of our being rather than trying to exert force upon it. In order to get into the zone, be the willingness of curiosity and discovery.

A drug may open your realisation to that there is SO MUCH MORE available to live and share than the trickle that is accepted reality - and yet the truth is that You are this Wholeness already - but in a filtered down and limited conditioning.

To unlock the MORE of You - don't sell your Soul - uncover it!
The world is a glamour - or a stage set for fools if we see and use it as a way to prevail over Life and each other. That isn't the real world because it shares nothing and costs everything!

Before acting, pause and feel a sense of sanity in which wisdom can arise

Before acting, pause and feel a sense of sanity in which wisdom can arise

A comment I posted on Independent website article : China 'set to produce more legal highs'

When are we going to become honest about the nature of our human consciousness - and educate ourselves past the knee jerk attempts to self righteously make evils that we can then present ourselves in opposition to?
If there are evils, they need to be understood at their root and not scapegoated and thus only superficially remedied while deeper ills grow in the dark.
Where are those who can speak with authority about the nature of the human beliefs and motives that are involved in using externally applied chemistry of any kind to enhance or prop up or lubricate an otherwise grey or lacklustre life? We are generally addicted to technology in communications and transport and tools of one kind or another but taboo the exploring and experiencing of perception and experience using externals.
If it is true that millions take these 'recreational' drugs and generally feel ok to use them or decide to stop using them if they find it becomes a negative - then their sense of a Government that is at all in touch with their world is undermined. Underneath all of our societal ills is that we tend to hypocrisy. The young may still have a sense that there is a lot more to life than is 'allowed' - but the general media and advertising propaganda promotes selfish-getting or becoming self-agrandized. The insecurities that politicians, corporations, marketeers and our own self illusion seeks to manipulate could be equated with a sense of a hole in our lives that we have to fill or cover over. Its a deeply charged and difficult arena to navigate through, but the alternative to conscious living is a life driven by external forces that have their counterpart in a sense of lack kept hidden within.
Meanwhile we expect our young to play the roles we assign them in a culture we have co-created. Drug use in a 'subculture' of reaction is not an answer, though it can be a stepping stone for some. But it is a symptom.
The scientific mind is often blinkered in specialisms - along with a dehumanized mental perspective - but one doesn't have to look to far to see that this isn't about young or old ravers or drugtakers. It is about us.

drug and law dangers

Brief comment posted on BBC site regarding drug dangers and laws

The sense of life that is currently 'shared' in our culture is of an appalling hypocrisy and shallow mediocrity. It is increasingly 'normal' to accept a meaningless and unhappy life with no real sense of a true intimacy of self or with others or the world.

A joyless life is an emptiness demanding to be filled. Chemical drugs offer a bio tech substitute - but dependance on external substitutes for life is an underlying mentality that has to be addressed experientially - and in one way or another we all have to discover for ourselves where our true life is.
But when the pervasive culture perpetually reinforces sick illusion and hypocrisy - it is hardly surprising that the liability for folly is magnified.