The Failed War on Drugs

The War on Drugs has cost us billions of dollars.  Many lives have been ruined.  Little, if any, good comes from this policy towards psychotropic substances.

My man Graham Hancock says it very well on his website.  Calling it, " The War on Consciousness".

Graham Hancock's The War on Consciousness

Culture in Decline (Video)

Cool Video by creator of Zeitgeist films, Peter Joseph

Has alot of poignant points.  I thought the bit about wants being engineered into desires to serve advertising and consumption was really interesting and obvious once one thinks about history.

It was the third in the series here are the first two.

Culture in Decline Episode 1

Culture in Decline Episode 2

Parental Resistance to Transcendance

When a child leaves the home for the first time they truly begin to know how the relate to the world as a whole, rather than, their nuclear family.  This is an intense and defining experience.

As a child grows they come to eventually see their parents as real people with all their faults and shortcomings.  This supplants their childhood view of their parents as the omnipotent big people who know how to do things.

Finding out your parents have faults is a large turning point in any child's life.  At this point children may begin to define themselves in opposition to their parents.  They wish to not embody the bad character traits that their parents make evident.

When a child returns from their first extended sojourn into the world. (extended job, military, college, etc.)  They may find that they have transcended much of the neuroticisms that their parents imparted on them.  Being away from their parents for this extended period of time has made their own adoption of their parental attitudes clear and reminds them that, as children, they wished to transcend what they saw wrong in their parents' behavior.

When they return home, the former children, now individuals, may attempt to change their parents' behavior with their newfound knowledge and world experience.  This is almost ALWAYS met with resistance from the parents.

Parents are not about to let the people they raised tell them how to change their lives, even for the better.  The ego resistance to advice from children is highly evident and is detrimental to the parents.  Because who knows their faults, and how to fix them, better than their own children.

If only parents could swallow their pride and see that their children can help them transcend themselves through the insight they have gained through being raised by them.

The Pain of Separation and Duality

When one is involved in a spiritual practice, such as: hallucinogens, meditation, yoga, tantra, etc.  One will come to a difficult point in their practice where they begin to see wrong throughout all aspects of their normal life.

One may have trouble relating to friends, parents, teachers, romantic partners or neighbors.  It may feel like all of these people are against one's self and are hindering one from progressing spiritually.

One may find fault in their daily routine such as their job or usual pleasurable habits.

The desire to "renounce the world" and go practice in seclusion may begin to enter one's mind.

This part of the spiritual path is often referred to as, "The Dark Night of the Soul."  It can be a dark time indeed and can truly feel like all is wrong in one's life.  One may question their whole spiritual practice, as they believed spiritual practice would help them feel, "good".  At this point one may feel anything but good.

The thing to do when one hits this wall is not to cut-off contact with all personal relationships, quit their job, or renounce the world.  But, rather, realize that the pain one is experiencing stems from their inner-realization of separateness and duality within their experience of reality.

One is actually just realizing how painful the false duality we impose on reality is, but, the mind tries to blame this intense feeling on aspects of our daily life.

The only remedy for this is trudge through the pain, not make any hasty decisions or lash out at others, but, to continue practicing and see through the false duality binding us to a world of pain.

KEEP PRACTICING and you will come out the other side.