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David Wilcock

07-03-2001, 12:17 PM

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>OK... here's the straight dope on dope. I call it the "five-leaf lesson." Once you learn the lesson then you can leave it behind and free yourself from the prison that it becomes. Hear me out here because I used to LOVE getting high. 
>
>Any high that you get from marijuana is a credit card high, and unlike some people's attitudes about debt, you immediately start paying it back. You can't run away from this responsibility. The deal with alcohol and tobaccois just about identical, so this could be seen as an overall treatise on mind-altering drugs. To a lesser but equally important degree, everything I am about to say is also at work when eating unhealthy, unnatural, refined and processed foods and animal products... so a person may not use "drugs" at all but find themselves in the exact same boat... only in their case it is with sugar, red meat, empty carbs like white flour, et cetera. So keep that in mind. Hence the Arcturians saying, "We do not endorse the use of any substance that would alter the mind spectrum in any way." 
>
>Here's the biggest revelation I made: The emotions, for all their richness and subtleties, are entirely driven by chemical secretions. That's it. Your emotions are chemically modulated. Period. Stop the secretions and / or take the chemicals away and you end up with something like autism or flat affect... a person who feels no real emotions. Some drugs can do that artificially, such as Navane, the "mental straight jacket." I know from working in the wards what people become once they get on that stuff. It ain't pretty. They just smoke cigarettes and stare at the wall, never smiling, never frowning, just "there." But not there.
>
>The pleasure-causing chemicals in the mind, such as norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin and the like, could be thought of as water in a water cooler. In day to day activity, with good health and decent exercise, you have a relatively consistent stream available to you. You can fill up your glass and keep yourself hydrated throughout the day. The amount that you 'drink' is akin to the amount of pleasure that you feel. If you have a healthy diet, attitude and activity level, you'll be very consistent in your well-being. People will marvel at how you're "always in a good mood" and "never get depressed," and ask you "how do you do it."
>
>Now in the case of using marijuana, there is NOTHING in the drug that is outside of your own chemical physiology. That is extremely important to remember. Yes, it is a great smelling and tasting herb, but ALL it does is force your brain to release its stored up supply of pleasure-causing chemicals at a high rate. It also forces out those chemicals related to spiritual inspiration and feelings of psychedelia, such as are stored in the pineal, pituitary and other glands. Again, there is NOTHING you experience that does not come from directly within your own body and its natural chemical secretions. NOTHING.
>
>So in one fell swoop, you blow out your whole cooler all at once. Laugh. Enjoy it. Wow, cool, man.I guarantee that you'll have a wild ride in the earlier stages, because you're forcing your body to do something horribly unnatural. You're only getting "high" on your own body, on your own supply of happiness-producing neurotransmitters. That's it. Nothing more. It's like drinking your own blood because you're thirsty and marveling at how rich and vibrant of a drink it is.
>
>So what happens in the days and weeks to follow? Your brain only creates new chemicals at a fixed rate of speed, akin to a trickle-feed that is coming into the top of the cooler. So you go and blow away all your supply and all that's left is the trickle-feed. And that feed may only be replacing something like 1/60th of the total "cooler" a day. (I don't have access to the exact figures.) If you are healthier and eat better, then it may replace a little more than that, but if you have a crappy diet and are lethargic, don't expect much. You CANNOT fully recharge the batteries in a short time... that's not how this works. We are not "built" to be living in constant ecstasy.
>
>So, do it once or twice and you'll feel "bummed out" for a few weeks afterwards. Do it more than a few times and you're deficit spending. More and more you'll be crawling into a miserable pit of hell, but because you never realize that your emotions are entirely chemically-driven, you easily come up with all sorts of "reasons" for why you feel so depressed and "bored." You may even attack others or attack self as being the "reason" for why you're so upset. You'll find as many reasons as you look for and yet never see the point.
>
>Meanwhile, the brain says, "Ah ha, I've figured you out, you're going to keep doing this to me, you're never going to let me build up any supply but will keep blowing it all out," so it will go into a withdrawal response. Thefaucet gets jammed shut.Everything gets cut off. Everything. This is very real, and finding out about all this in my scientific literature at the time is what got me to quit. I realized WHY I was always depressed and miserable... I had totally messed up my neurochemistry. It had nothing to do with "reasons."
>
>In the inevitable withdrawal response, the brain will REFUSE to secrete any of your extremely limited supply for any reason, because it KNOWS that it's going to lose everything the next time the foreign chemical is introduced. So that means that even in the presence of things that SHOULD normally make you feel happy and elated and joyful, (such as a mountain walk or lovemaking with your companion,) you've got nothing. The only chemicals that are left in your brain are those related to negative emotions such as anger, jealousy, anxiety, fear, depression, tiredness, boredom and loneliness, because drugs only trigger the pleasure-causing chemicals. You've still got anample supply of all the chemicals that make you feel bad because you're not blowing out their "cooler" like you are with the others. So the depression is what you and everyone else will experience from you when you're "sober." (I used to call it "stone-cold sober.")
>
>So you rapidly end up in a situation where you wonder why life sucks so much when you're not smoking, and your use increases more and more just to feel "normal." Eventually you have so screwed yourself that as soon as you've smoked, you are just "regular" like a non-drug using person, with no real euphoria or "high" left. I remember seeing this happen when I visited some ritual marijuana users after I got clean; there was literally nothing different in their attitudes to let me know that they felt any more "high" than I did on a consistent level just by being me. I said to myself, "Didn't they all just take about ten hits apiece? They're no different!"
>
>So, instead of the actual "high," you come to enjoyand be addicted to the RITUALof the joints, bowls, bongs, et cetera, the actual smoking part, (and or the "going out" aspects of alcoholism and all its forms) much more than the aftereffects, which eventually wear off in well under a half-hour if you really even get them at all. By the end all you'll really feel is a general head-rush, lightening of circulation in the brain and a vague sense of well-being and "spiritual enlightenment." In reality, you are just like the Government, deficit spending with only a further desire to consume, consume, consume.
>
>Yes... this is why Dr. Izumoto calls alcohol and drugs "Satan's Happiness." Before I recovered from my own addiction I needed to smoke just to feel any happiness at all, and I really didn't feel any better than I did on a constant day-by-day level now. 
>
>There is NO replacement for the clarity of consciousness that comes with sobriety, the ET diet and a decent exercise plan of 15-30 minutes of walking outdoors a day. I was amazed and relieved to find out that my short-term memory had returned to me after about 3-6 months of clean time. The ability to think and speak the way that I do, and the psychic function, simply did not exist in any form but one of latency when I was a marijuana user. 
>
>Yes, I definitely had my share of psychedelic / visionary experiences on pot, but they come at a very dear price. And I had so many great creative ideas but in the end had very little to show for them; the marijuana user is famous for "pipe dreams." No action ever follows inspiration. I wrote what, two short science fiction stories, reprinted in "Wanderer Awakening?" Marijuana users eventually get so lethargic that they don't ever want to go anywhere or do anything, unless they "have to." They will be perfectly content to get high and stare at the wall. I know I was. The "alkies" would say, "Come on man, let's go to town, you gotta meet some chicks, man," and I'd say, 'Faaaaak you..." 
>
>So, even one session will affect your "sober" mood for every minute of every day for two months afterwards, roughly, according to what Ra indicated in Book Two and Five. That's why Book Two is so skinny... Carla used some drugs and totally squandered her vital energy. 
>
>Now of course, the harder drugs (which I have never done but have studied about in detail) will blow the "cooler" out even faster, and may trigger some different neurotransmitters that marijuana does not. The research that I have been exposed to suggests that heroin works the same as marijuana, only a lot stronger. Cocaine and speed trigger many of the same types of chemicals but also enhances the fight-or-flight chemicals at the same time, such as adrenaline. Caffeine is a milder form of this same process.
>
>In the psychedelic category, LSD and mushrooms are actually completely different. LSD causes ALL the neurotransmitters to fire intermittently, all throughout your brain, including the parts that you "never use." So LSD usersinvariably feel "confused" anddisoriented, plus they are in massive fight-or-flight response and therefore get hugely paranoid.Mushrooms, on the other hand, suppress insulin andcause a massive increase in blood sugar content, while also having the neurotransmitter blow-out effects of marijuana heightened to a much higher level of intensity. That is why psychedelic users report that there are such different experiences between the two, and why the old hippie legend says "Drink orange juice on shrooms and the colors get brighter."
>
>A psychedelic experience is very similar to what happens very briefly when you stand up too fast and the blood leaves your head, or you have a sudden trauma to the body that causes your "life to flash before your eyes." It is an artificially-induced near death experience. Ra did say that it had the potential to "open a random gateway to intelligent infinity," but this by no means is an exact science... more like a situation where if you happen to open a gateway that "works," you'll have to painstakingly find your way back through that contorted path later on to get to it again. Daily dreamwork and meditation will very deliberately, cleanly and clearly open the gateway without needs for substitution or death-causing chemicals.
>
>I used to tell people I was going to use marijuana for the rest of my life... "once a pot smoker, always a pot smoker,"my friend Brad used to quip.I had no idea about the emotions being chemically modulated. It was only the experience of working all summer in the utter hell of the vinyl factory that I realized that something was dreadfully wrong, and I was using pot just to bear to stay alive. Then when I went back to college for my sophomore year, I said, "Wait a minute, now I'm on this beautiful campus, surrounded by beautiful women and have gobs of free time, and I'm still just as depressed and miserable as I was in the vinyl factory. What in the hell is going on?" 
>
>Two magazine articles in two different magazines came to me at the same time, and between both of them I completely realized what was happening to me, as I have now explained it. Quitting was a MAJORLY difficult step, because I felt like I was giving up everything that I had ever loved... marijuana had become something that I had oriented my whole life around and would zealously promote to others. When I cast it off, at first I had nothing to replace it with. But soon afterwards, I replaced it with recovery meetings, dreamwork, meditation, music making and UFO / metaphysics research. In my case, the Higher Self stepped in through dreams and I didn't need to become a long-term AA member. And now, here we are, coming up on a nine-year anniversary on September 24.
>
>Peace be with you -
>
>- David
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Tiffani Boswell

07-03-2001, 01:06 PM

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>thanks david...that is another keeper!
>
>what is the ET diet??
>
>
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>

>OK... here's the straight dope on dope. I call it the "five-leaf lesson." Once you learn the lesson then you can leave it behind and free yourself from the prison that it becomes. Hear me out here because I used to LOVE getting high. 
>
>Any high that you get from marijuana is a credit card high, and unlike some people's attitudes about debt, you immediately start paying it back. You can't run away from this responsibility. The deal with alcohol and tobaccois just about identical, so this could be seen as an overall treatise on mind-altering drugs. To a lesser but equally important degree, everything I am about to say is also at work when eating unhealthy, unnatural, refined and processed foods and animal products... so a person may not use "drugs" at all but find themselves in the exact same boat... only in their case it is with sugar, red meat, empty carbs like white flour, et cetera. So keep that in mind. Hence the Arcturians saying, "We do not endorse the use of any substance that would alter the mind spectrum in any way." 
>
>Here's the biggest revelation I made: The emotions, for all their richness and subtleties, are entirely driven by chemical secretions. That's it. Your emotions are chemically modulated. Period. Stop the secretions and / or take the chemicals away and you end up with something like autism or flat affect... a person who feels no real emotions. Some drugs can do that artificially, such as Navane, the "mental straight jacket." I know from working in the wards what people become once they get on that stuff. It ain't pretty. They just smoke cigarettes and stare at the wall, never smiling, never frowning, just "there." But not there.
>
>The pleasure-causing chemicals in the mind, such as norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin and the like, could be thought of as water in a water cooler. In day to day activity, with good health and decent exercise, you have a relatively consistent stream available to you. You can fill up your glass and keep yourself hydrated throughout the day. The amount that you 'drink' is akin to the amount of pleasure that you feel. If you have a healthy diet, attitude and activity level, you'll be very consistent in your well-being. People will marvel at how you're "always in a good mood" and "never get depressed," and ask you "how do you do it."
>
>Now in the case of using marijuana, there is NOTHING in the drug that is outside of your own chemical physiology. That is extremely important to remember. Yes, it is a great smelling and tasting herb, but ALL it does is force your brain to release its stored up supply of pleasure-causing chemicals at a high rate. It also forces out those chemicals related to spiritual inspiration and feelings of psychedelia, such as are stored in the pineal, pituitary and other glands. Again, there is NOTHING you experience that does not come from directly within your own body and its natural chemical secretions. NOTHING.
>
>So in one fell swoop, you blow out your whole cooler all at once. Laugh. Enjoy it. Wow, cool, man.I guarantee that you'll have a wild ride in the earlier stages, because you're forcing your body to do something horribly unnatural. You're only getting "high" on your own body, on your own supply of happiness-producing neurotransmitters. That's it. Nothing more. It's like drinking your own blood because you're thirsty and marveling at how rich and vibrant of a drink it is.
>
>So what happens in the days and weeks to follow? Your brain only creates new chemicals at a fixed rate of speed, akin to a trickle-feed that is coming into the top of the cooler. So you go and blow away all your supply and all that's left is the trickle-feed. And that feed may only be replacing something like 1/60th of the total "cooler" a day. (I don't have access to the exact figures.) If you are healthier and eat better, then it may replace a little more than that, but if you have a crappy diet and are lethargic, don't expect much. You CANNOT fully recharge the batteries in a short time... that's not how this works. We are not "built" to be living in constant ecstasy.
>
>So, do it once or twice and you'll feel "bummed out" for a few weeks afterwards. Do it more than a few times and you're deficit spending. More and more you'll be crawling into a miserable pit of hell, but because you never realize that your emotions are entirely chemically-driven, you easily come up with all sorts of "reasons" for why you feel so depressed and "bored." You may even attack others or attack self as being the "reason" for why you're so upset. You'll find as many reasons as you look for and yet never see the point.
>
>Meanwhile, the brain says, "Ah ha, I've figured you out, you're going to keep doing this to me, you're never going to let me build up any supply but will keep blowing it all out," so it will go into a withdrawal response. Thefaucet gets jammed shut.Everything gets cut off. Everything. This is very real, and finding out about all this in my scientific literature at the time is what got me to quit. I realized WHY I was always depressed and miserable... I had totally messed up my neurochemistry. It had nothing to do with "reasons."
>
>In the inevitable withdrawal response, the brain will REFUSE to secrete any of your extremely limited supply for any reason, because it KNOWS that it's going to lose everything the next time the foreign chemical is introduced. So that means that even in the presence of things that SHOULD normally make you feel happy and elated and joyful, (such as a mountain walk or lovemaking with your companion,) you've got nothing. The only chemicals that are left in your brain are those related to negative emotions such as anger, jealousy, anxiety, fear, depression, tiredness, boredom and loneliness, because drugs only trigger the pleasure-causing chemicals. You've still got anample supply of all the chemicals that make you feel bad because you're not blowing out their "cooler" like you are with the others. So the depression is what you and everyone else will experience from you when you're "sober." (I used to call it "stone-cold sober.")
>
>So you rapidly end up in a situation where you wonder why life sucks so much when you're not smoking, and your use increases more and more just to feel "normal." Eventually you have so screwed yourself that as soon as you've smoked, you are just "regular" like a non-drug using person, with no real euphoria or "high" left. I remember seeing this happen when I visited some ritual marijuana users after I got clean; there was literally nothing different in their attitudes to let me know that they felt any more "high" than I did on a consistent level just by being me. I said to myself, "Didn't they all just take about ten hits apiece? They're no different!"
>
>So, instead of the actual "high," you come to enjoyand be addicted to the RITUALof the joints, bowls, bongs, et cetera, the actual smoking part, (and or the "going out" aspects of alcoholism and all its forms) much more than the aftereffects, which eventually wear off in well under a half-hour if you really even get them at all. By the end all you'll really feel is a general head-rush, lightening of circulation in the brain and a vague sense of well-being and "spiritual enlightenment." In reality, you are just like the Government, deficit spending with only a further desire to consume, consume, consume.
>
>Yes... this is why Dr. Izumoto calls alcohol and drugs "Satan's Happiness." Before I recovered from my own addiction I needed to smoke just to feel any happiness at all, and I really didn't feel any better than I did on a constant day-by-day level now. 
>
>There is NO replacement for the clarity of consciousness that comes with sobriety, the ET diet and a decent exercise plan of 15-30 minutes of walking outdoors a day. I was amazed and relieved to find out that my short-term memory had returned to me after about 3-6 months of clean time. The ability to think and speak the way that I do, and the psychic function, simply did not exist in any form but one of latency when I was a marijuana user. 
>
>Yes, I definitely had my share of psychedelic / visionary experiences on pot, but they come at a very dear price. And I had so many great creative ideas but in the end had very little to show for them; the marijuana user is famous for "pipe dreams." No action ever follows inspiration. I wrote what, two short science fiction stories, reprinted in "Wanderer Awakening?" Marijuana users eventually get so lethargic that they don't ever want to go anywhere or do anything, unless they "have to." They will be perfectly content to get high and stare at the wall. I know I was. The "alkies" would say, "Come on man, let's go to town, you gotta meet some chicks, man," and I'd say, 'Faaaaak you..." 
>
>So, even one session will affect your "sober" mood for every minute of every day for two months afterwards, roughly, according to what Ra indicated in Book Two and Five. That's why Book Two is so skinny... Carla used some drugs and totally squandered her vital energy. 
>
>Now of course, the harder drugs (which I have never done but have studied about in detail) will blow the "cooler" out even faster, and may trigger some different neurotransmitters that marijuana does not. The research that I have been exposed to suggests that heroin works the same as marijuana, only a lot stronger. Cocaine and speed trigger many of the same types of chemicals but also enhances the fight-or-flight chemicals at the same time, such as adrenaline. Caffeine is a milder form of this same process.
>
>In the psychedelic category, LSD and mushrooms are actually completely different. LSD causes ALL the neurotransmitters to fire intermittently, all throughout your brain, including the parts that you "never use." So LSD usersinvariably feel "confused" anddisoriented, plus they are in massive fight-or-flight response and therefore get hugely paranoid.Mushrooms, on the other hand, suppress insulin andcause a massive increase in blood sugar content, while also having the neurotransmitter blow-out effects of marijuana heightened to a much higher level of intensity. That is why psychedelic users report that there are such different experiences between the two, and why the old hippie legend says "Drink orange juice on shrooms and the colors get brighter."
>
>A psychedelic experience is very similar to what happens very briefly when you stand up too fast and the blood leaves your head, or you have a sudden trauma to the body that causes your "life to flash before your eyes." It is an artificially-induced near death experience. Ra did say that it had the potential to "open a random gateway to intelligent infinity," but this by no means is an exact science... more like a situation where if you happen to open a gateway that "works," you'll have to painstakingly find your way back through that contorted path later on to get to it again. Daily dreamwork and meditation will very deliberately, cleanly and clearly open the gateway without needs for substitution or death-causing chemicals.
>
>I used to tell people I was going to use marijuana for the rest of my life... "once a pot smoker, always a pot smoker,"my friend Brad used to quip.I had no idea about the emotions being chemically modulated. It was only the experience of working all summer in the utter hell of the vinyl factory that I realized that something was dreadfully wrong, and I was using pot just to bear to stay alive. Then when I went back to college for my sophomore year, I said, "Wait a minute, now I'm on this beautiful campus, surrounded by beautiful women and have gobs of free time, and I'm still just as depressed and miserable as I was in the vinyl factory. What in the hell is going on?" 
>
>Two magazine articles in two different magazines came to me at the same time, and between both of them I completely realized what was happening to me, as I have now explained it. Quitting was a MAJORLY difficult step, because I felt like I was giving up everything that I had ever loved... marijuana had become something that I had oriented my whole life around and would zealously promote to others. When I cast it off, at first I had nothing to replace it with. But soon afterwards, I replaced it with recovery meetings, dreamwork, meditation, music making and UFO / metaphysics research. In my case, the Higher Self stepped in through dreams and I didn't need to become a long-term AA member. And now, here we are, coming up on a nine-year anniversary on September 24.
>
>Peace be with you -
>
>- David
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Gayle
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Rob Large

07-03-2001, 03:40 PM

After being clean now for about 6 six months and the previous 5 years being
lost to an insatiable appetite for the weed I can say that your words hold a
true meaning to me, thanks. Duncan.

>From: "Tiffani Boswell" <tiffani@... (/group/asc2k/post?postID=jZfqZy1a41NdyJlTvJxDLgxbCZX3Bbr51znQT6 ohnm99nAED-g5NKDDJeY4rWACXPx6-yO49XPiG7T1HoQ)>
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>To: <asc2k@yahoogroups.com (/group/asc2k/post?postID=GI7r2ciLnnoAB38ONuCDFh3Aod_PFgCrdqDidF QMt8iasq8tjsfM4qqZbPfvJfkwxGMphsZs-mDyIGpS)>
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>Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:06:52 -0500
>
>thanks david...that is another keeper!
>
>what is the ET diet??
>
>
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>
>
> OK... here's the straight dope on dope. I call it the "five-leaf
>lesson." Once you learn the lesson then you can leave it behind and free
>yourself from the prison that it becomes. Hear me out here because I used
>to LOVE getting high.
>
> Any high that you get from marijuana is a credit card high, and unlike
>some people's attitudes about debt, you immediately start paying it back.
>You can't run away from this responsibility. The deal with alcohol and
>tobacco is just about identical, so this could be seen as an overall
>treatise on mind-altering drugs. To a lesser but equally important degree,
>everything I am about to say is also at work when eating unhealthy,
>unnatural, refined and processed foods and animal products... so a person
>may not use "drugs" at all but find themselves in the exact same boat...
>only in their case it is with sugar, red meat, empty carbs like white
>flour, et cetera. So keep that in mind. Hence the Arcturians saying, "We do
>not endorse the use of any substance that would alter the mind spectrum in
>any way."
>
> Here's the biggest revelation I made: The emotions, for all their
>richness and subtleties, are entirely driven by chemical secretions. That's
>it. Your emotions are chemically modulated. Period. Stop the secretions and
>/ or take the chemicals away and you end up with something like autism or
>flat affect... a person who feels no real emotions. Some drugs can do that
>artificially, such as Navane, the "mental straight jacket." I know from
>working in the wards what people become once they get on that stuff. It
>ain't pretty. They just smoke cigarettes and stare at the wall, never
>smiling, never frowning, just "there." But not there.
>
> The pleasure-causing chemicals in the mind, such as norepinephrine,
>dopamine, serotonin and the like, could be thought of as water in a water
>cooler. In day to day activity, with good health and decent exercise, you
>have a relatively consistent stream available to you. You can fill up your
>glass and keep yourself hydrated throughout the day. The amount that you
>'drink' is akin to the amount of pleasure that you feel. If you have a
>healthy diet, attitude and activity level, you'll be very consistent in
>your well-being. People will marvel at how you're "always in a good mood"
>and "never get depressed," and ask you "how do you do it."
>
> Now in the case of using marijuana, there is NOTHING in the drug that is
>outside of your own chemical physiology. That is extremely important to
>remember. Yes, it is a great smelling and tasting herb, but ALL it does is
>force your brain to release its stored up supply of pleasure-causing
>chemicals at a high rate. It also forces out those chemicals related to
>spiritual inspiration and feelings of psychedelia, such as are stored in
>the pineal, pituitary and other glands. Again, there is NOTHING you
>experience that does not come from directly within your own body and its
>natural chemical secretions. NOTHING.
>
> So in one fell swoop, you blow out your whole cooler all at once. Laugh.
>Enjoy it. Wow, cool, man. I guarantee that you'll have a wild ride in the
>earlier stages, because you're forcing your body to do something horribly
>unnatural. You're only getting "high" on your own body, on your own supply
>of happiness-producing neurotransmitters. That's it. Nothing more. It's
>like drinking your own blood because you're thirsty and marveling at how
>rich and vibrant of a drink it is.
>
> So what happens in the days and weeks to follow? Your brain only creates
>new chemicals at a fixed rate of speed, akin to a trickle-feed that is
>coming into the top of the cooler. So you go and blow away all your supply
>and all that's left is the trickle-feed. And that feed may only be
>replacing something like 1/60th of the total "cooler" a day. (I don't have
>access to the exact figures.) If you are healthier and eat better, then it
>may replace a little more than that, but if you have a crappy diet and are
>lethargic, don't expect much. You CANNOT fully recharge the batteries in a
>short time... that's not how this works. We are not "built" to be living in
>constant ecstasy.
>
> So, do it once or twice and you'll feel "bummed out" for a few weeks
>afterwards. Do it more than a few times and you're deficit spending. More
>and more you'll be crawling into a miserable pit of hell, but because you
>never realize that your emotions are entirely chemically-driven, you easily
>come up with all sorts of "reasons" for why you feel so depressed and
>"bored." You may even attack others or attack self as being the "reason"
>for why you're so upset. You'll find as many reasons as you look for and
>yet never see the point.
>
> Meanwhile, the brain says, "Ah ha, I've figured you out, you're going to
>keep doing this to me, you're never going to let me build up any supply but
>will keep blowing it all out," so it will go into a withdrawal response.
>The faucet gets jammed shut. Everything gets cut off. Everything. This is
>very real, and finding out about all this in my scientific literature at
>the time is what got me to quit. I realized WHY I was always depressed and
>miserable... I had totally messed up my neurochemistry. It had nothing to
>do with "reasons."
>
> In the inevitable withdrawal response, the brain will REFUSE to secrete
>any of your extremely limited supply for any reason, because it KNOWS that
>it's going to lose everything the next time the foreign chemical is
>introduced. So that means that even in the presence of things that SHOULD
>normally make you feel happy and elated and joyful, (such as a mountain
>walk or lovemaking with your companion,) you've got nothing. The only
>chemicals that are left in your brain are those related to negative
>emotions such as anger, jealousy, anxiety, fear, depression, tiredness,
>boredom and loneliness, because drugs only trigger the pleasure-causing
>chemicals. You've still got an ample supply of all the chemicals that make
>you feel bad because you're not blowing out their "cooler" like you are
>with the others. So the depression is what you and everyone else will
>experience from you when you're "sober." (I used to call it "stone-cold
>sober.")
>
> So you rapidly end up in a situation where you wonder why life sucks so
>much when you're not smoking, and your use increases more and more just to
>feel "normal." Eventually you have so screwed yourself that as soon as
>you've smoked, you are just "regular" like a non-drug using person, with no
>real euphoria or "high" left. I remember seeing this happen when I visited
>some ritual marijuana users after I got clean; there was literally nothing
>different in their attitudes to let me know that they felt any more "high"
>than I did on a consistent level just by being me. I said to myself,
>"Didn't they all just take about ten hits apiece? They're no different!"
>
> So, instead of the actual "high," you come to enjoy and be addicted to
>the RITUAL of the joints, bowls, bongs, et cetera, the actual smoking part,
>(and or the "going out" aspects of alcoholism and all its forms) much more
>than the aftereffects, which eventually wear off in well under a half-hour
>if you really even get them at all. By the end all you'll really feel is a
>general head-rush, lightening of circulation in the brain and a vague sense
>of well-being and "spiritual enlightenment." In reality, you are just like
>the Government, deficit spending with only a further desire to consume,
>consume, consume.
>
> Yes... this is why Dr. Izumoto calls alcohol and drugs "Satan's
>Happiness." Before I recovered from my own addiction I needed to smoke just
>to feel any happiness at all, and I really didn't feel any better than I
>did on a constant day-by-day level now.
>
> There is NO replacement for the clarity of consciousness that comes with
>sobriety, the ET diet and a decent exercise plan of 15-30 minutes of
>walking outdoors a day. I was amazed and relieved to find out that my
>short-term memory had returned to me after about 3-6 months of clean time.
>The ability to think and speak the way that I do, and the psychic function,
>simply did not exist in any form but one of latency when I was a marijuana
>user.
>
> Yes, I definitely had my share of psychedelic / visionary experiences on
>pot, but they come at a very dear price. And I had so many great creative
>ideas but in the end had very little to show for them; the marijuana user
>is famous for "pipe dreams." No action ever follows inspiration. I wrote
>what, two short science fiction stories, reprinted in "Wanderer Awakening?"
>Marijuana users eventually get so lethargic that they don't ever want to go
>anywhere or do anything, unless they "have to." They will be perfectly
>content to get high and stare at the wall. I know I was. The "alkies" would
>say, "Come on man, let's go to town, you gotta meet some chicks, man," and
>I'd say, 'Faaaaak you..."
>
> So, even one session will affect your "sober" mood for every minute of
>every day for two months afterwards, roughly, according to what Ra
>indicated in Book Two and Five. That's why Book Two is so skinny... Carla
>used some drugs and totally squandered her vital energy.
>
> Now of course, the harder drugs (which I have never done but have
>studied about in detail) will blow the "cooler" out even faster, and may
>trigger some different neurotransmitters that marijuana does not. The
>research that I have been exposed to suggests that heroin works the same as
>marijuana, only a lot stronger. Cocaine and speed trigger many of the same
>types of chemicals but also enhances the fight-or-flight chemicals at the
>same time, such as adrenaline. Caffeine is a milder form of this same
>process.
>
> In the psychedelic category, LSD and mushrooms are actually completely
>different. LSD causes ALL the neurotransmitters to fire intermittently, all
>throughout your brain, including the parts that you "never use." So LSD
>users invariably feel "confused" and disoriented, plus they are in massive
>fight-or-flight response and therefore get hugely paranoid. Mushrooms, on
>the other hand, suppress insulin and cause a massive increase in blood
>sugar content, while also having the neurotransmitter blow-out effects of
>marijuana heightened to a much higher level of intensity. That is why
>psychedelic users report that there are such different experiences between
>the two, and why the old hippie legend says "Drink orange juice on shrooms
>and the colors get brighter."
>
> A psychedelic experience is very similar to what happens very briefly
>when you stand up too fast and the blood leaves your head, or you have a
>sudden trauma to the body that causes your "life to flash before your
>eyes." It is an artificially-induced near death experience. Ra did say that
>it had the potential to "open a random gateway to intelligent infinity,"
>but this by no means is an exact science... more like a situation where if
>you happen to open a gateway that "works," you'll have to painstakingly
>find your way back through that contorted path later on to get to it again.
>Daily dreamwork and meditation will very deliberately, cleanly and clearly
>open the gateway without needs for substitution or death-causing chemicals.
>
> I used to tell people I was going to use marijuana for the rest of my
>life... "once a pot smoker, always a pot smoker," my friend Brad used to
>quip. I had no idea about the emotions being chemically modulated. It was
>only the experience of working all summer in the utter hell of the vinyl
>factory that I realized that something was dreadfully wrong, and I was
>using pot just to bear to stay alive. Then when I went back to college for
>my sophomore year, I said, "Wait a minute, now I'm on this beautiful
>campus, surrounded by beautiful women and have gobs of free time, and I'm
>still just as depressed and miserable as I was in the vinyl factory. What
>in the hell is going on?"
>
> Two magazine articles in two different magazines came to me at the same
>time, and between both of them I completely realized what was happening to
>me, as I have now explained it. Quitting was a MAJORLY difficult step,
>because I felt like I was giving up everything that I had ever loved...
>marijuana had become something that I had oriented my whole life around and
>would zealously promote to others. When I cast it off, at first I had
>nothing to replace it with. But soon afterwards, I replaced it with
>recovery meetings, dreamwork, meditation, music making and UFO /
>metaphysics research. In my case, the Higher Self stepped in through dreams
>and I didn't need to become a long-term AA member. And now, here we are,
>coming up on a nine-year anniversary on September 24.
>
> Peace be with you -
>
> - David
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