midwich cuckoo
13-02-2007, 02:03 AM
Ask yourself, why is cannabis illegal?.
Is it because it is dangerous?.
Actually most of todays 'cannabis' is dangerous
Most of todays 'street cannabis' is adulterated, poisonous crap, this stuff will drive you mad and kill you, in essence it is not cannabis!. The governments control the flow, do you think they would get away with selling polluted cannabis if it was legal?.
Real (unadulterated) cannabis is a doorway to the truth.
This is why it is illegal!. It is dangerous to 'them'!.
Cannabis is the plant that "God" warned humans not to eat from, in the Garden of Eden. Genesis 2:16-17: "And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
(What else could be the tree of knowledge of good and evil?. Remember 1969, the "summer of love" and how it all went wrong when the CIA became involved.)
In addition, to those who are unaware of the more spiritual truths behind enlightment and to those bound by the material worldly "system", Cannabis is a "dangerous" plant because it causes mind alterations which force the consumer to question the deep nature of things via deep insights, including law, order and the very foundations of the system itself. When people question such things, usually anarchy occurs and the later is far from desirable.
While the connection is somewhat obvious, several people, including Christians who study the Bible usually do not acknowledge it. This probably stems from the fact that most people interpret literally God's "warning" as an explicit prohibition. This "warning" is the ancient Hebrews' effort to screen the unworthy ones from the profound insights that Cannabis provides. More on this subject, later.
Cannabis qualifies as a "tree of the knowledge of good and evil", and consuming it qualifies as a "Holy Communion", precisely because it's inherently tied to two key notions which are related to its consumption: CHOICE (with regard to WANTING to experience The Truth), and REVELATION (of The Truth).
Cannabis and Choice with Regard to Union With The Universal Mind.
Cannabis allows an individual's mind to get a glimpse of The Universal Mind. In this sense, consumption of Cannabis carries with it the inherent notion of a major "choice", exactly like in The Matrix Allegory. In a sense, people who have chosen to consume Cannabis, have exercised their freedom of choice by making this choice, in order to experience The Truth, similar to how Neo chose the red pill, so for them, it's pretty much over. Like in the Matrix: We are here to understand WHY we made this choice.
While intoxicated several notions which are otherwise inert or difficult to understand, become highly clarified. In fact, the clarification of such notions is so intense, that one would tend to classify Cannabis as a "revelatory" and Sacred plant, mainly because of its ability to expand the horizons of the mind.
The effects of intoxication are reported to be subjective, but whatever the case may be, Cannabis seems to cause the mind to expand, until it reaches "God". This subjective feeling of "reaching God", can be found exactly in the Serpent's quote in passage Genesis 3:4: "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5": "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.".
Under intoxication, the Ego, or should I call it, "the seat of consciousness" wants to experience what it is like to "be" God. This is of course a highly dangerous event, resembling a runaway train. The Self while intoxicated gets drunk with the idea of godhood and wants to linger in it as long as possible.
"Knowing good and evil" to a certain extent becomes true under the influence of Cannabis. Plainly put, the free associations which take place in one's mind while intoxicated bare extreme resemblance to one suddenly having a deep revelatory experience about "The Truth". It is exactly this Truth, which is spoken of in John 8:32: "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.".
The Memory Problem and the Degeneration of Holy Communion into a Rite With Wine
What Christians call "the Holy Sacrament/Eucharist" is but a remote memory remnant of the rite that the very first enlightened ones remember. This is related to the memory problem, analyzed elsewhere. Unfortunately, because of this memory problem and because of other obvious reasons, "the Holy Sacrament" has degenerated into an entirely different practice, having nothing whatsoever to do with the true meaning of what a "Holy Sacrament" was.
It is only natural that modern churches have distanced themselves from Cannabis, since the awareness Cannabis provides, eventually gives one insight which goes contrary to established laws, religious, state or otherwise. Cannabis causes the mind to be associated with a peaceful sensation of belonging to the entire universe, with obvious insight into the hows and whys things work in our world. This naturally opposes the purposes of the rich and powerful (including those who sit on top of official churches), so it had to be outlawed, because it promotes this very mind-set.
Therefore most Christian churches todate have lost the "true" meaning of this communion and have substituted it for wine. As a result, it appears no official church holds the actual true teachings of Christianity anymore.
Believers and Non-believers in "Jesus"
Several people insist on a demystification of the Cannabis experience, claiming that the experience itself is always subjective, thus all connections to religion are pure bunk, resulting from additional bogus mental associations. Therefore, we have two classes of Cannabis users: Those who immediately recognize "God" behind the experience, and those who simply view it as a "recreational drug".
Those who view Cannabis as a Sacred experience, are the true followers of "Jesus" and those who view Cannabis a recreational drug are those who consider "Jesus" a plain (existent or not) human being and otherwise don't view him as the "Son of God".
The above distinction becomes important, because it is easy to see that the true identity of the principal idea of "Christ", is nothing more than the very first Cannabis experience itself. According to ancient Gnostic texts, the Genesis' Serpent WAS Christ, who showed Adam and Eve the way to enlightment. The allegory then becomes quite obvious now, from a literal interpretation of Genesis: Adam and Eve (the first humans) had coexisted with the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Cannabis) since the very beginning, but were unaware of its presence, until they tasted it. How did they taste it? With the help of the Gnostic Serpent (The Christ), who somehow "knew" about it.
Christ as the Cannabis Experience
In a literal interpretation of Genesis, the Christ/Serpent is The Cannabis Experience as an ideal. The experience itself manifests initially as "The Serpent of Wisdom", exactly as "The One" character manifests initially in the Matrix scenario according to Morpheus, who when the Matrix was first made, "had the ability to change The Matrix at will". Again according to Morpheus, "he was the one who freed the first one of us...". In the Gnostic dogma, the one who freed us from the bonds of God was the Serpent of Wisdom.
It is interesting that in the following "diagram" of the names of God (from Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652-54)), the names are all appended to what looks like a huge plant:
http://ioannis.virtualcomposer2000.com/writing/figs/names_of_God.jpg
In the words of Jesus himself, John 14:6: "Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Literally, no one can attain perfect understanding about "The System", unless one experiences Cannabis.
Again in terms of the Bible, John 6:46: "No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father." Literally, no one knows perfectly (or can describe accurately) the Father/System, except the Cannabis experience itself. Only the Cannabis experience itself "sees" the Father directly.
In other words, Christ is that which allows man to come close to God. But so is Cannabis. Christ then, literally translated, IS The Cannabis Experience. The Cannabis Experience is He/She/It who has an overall view of things, metaphysically or spiritually. It is exactly this "overall view of things" which is the root of the Greek word "THEOS". Literally, The Overseer.
Is it because it is dangerous?.
Actually most of todays 'cannabis' is dangerous
Most of todays 'street cannabis' is adulterated, poisonous crap, this stuff will drive you mad and kill you, in essence it is not cannabis!. The governments control the flow, do you think they would get away with selling polluted cannabis if it was legal?.
Real (unadulterated) cannabis is a doorway to the truth.
This is why it is illegal!. It is dangerous to 'them'!.
Cannabis is the plant that "God" warned humans not to eat from, in the Garden of Eden. Genesis 2:16-17: "And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
(What else could be the tree of knowledge of good and evil?. Remember 1969, the "summer of love" and how it all went wrong when the CIA became involved.)
In addition, to those who are unaware of the more spiritual truths behind enlightment and to those bound by the material worldly "system", Cannabis is a "dangerous" plant because it causes mind alterations which force the consumer to question the deep nature of things via deep insights, including law, order and the very foundations of the system itself. When people question such things, usually anarchy occurs and the later is far from desirable.
While the connection is somewhat obvious, several people, including Christians who study the Bible usually do not acknowledge it. This probably stems from the fact that most people interpret literally God's "warning" as an explicit prohibition. This "warning" is the ancient Hebrews' effort to screen the unworthy ones from the profound insights that Cannabis provides. More on this subject, later.
Cannabis qualifies as a "tree of the knowledge of good and evil", and consuming it qualifies as a "Holy Communion", precisely because it's inherently tied to two key notions which are related to its consumption: CHOICE (with regard to WANTING to experience The Truth), and REVELATION (of The Truth).
Cannabis and Choice with Regard to Union With The Universal Mind.
Cannabis allows an individual's mind to get a glimpse of The Universal Mind. In this sense, consumption of Cannabis carries with it the inherent notion of a major "choice", exactly like in The Matrix Allegory. In a sense, people who have chosen to consume Cannabis, have exercised their freedom of choice by making this choice, in order to experience The Truth, similar to how Neo chose the red pill, so for them, it's pretty much over. Like in the Matrix: We are here to understand WHY we made this choice.
While intoxicated several notions which are otherwise inert or difficult to understand, become highly clarified. In fact, the clarification of such notions is so intense, that one would tend to classify Cannabis as a "revelatory" and Sacred plant, mainly because of its ability to expand the horizons of the mind.
The effects of intoxication are reported to be subjective, but whatever the case may be, Cannabis seems to cause the mind to expand, until it reaches "God". This subjective feeling of "reaching God", can be found exactly in the Serpent's quote in passage Genesis 3:4: "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5": "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.".
Under intoxication, the Ego, or should I call it, "the seat of consciousness" wants to experience what it is like to "be" God. This is of course a highly dangerous event, resembling a runaway train. The Self while intoxicated gets drunk with the idea of godhood and wants to linger in it as long as possible.
"Knowing good and evil" to a certain extent becomes true under the influence of Cannabis. Plainly put, the free associations which take place in one's mind while intoxicated bare extreme resemblance to one suddenly having a deep revelatory experience about "The Truth". It is exactly this Truth, which is spoken of in John 8:32: "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.".
The Memory Problem and the Degeneration of Holy Communion into a Rite With Wine
What Christians call "the Holy Sacrament/Eucharist" is but a remote memory remnant of the rite that the very first enlightened ones remember. This is related to the memory problem, analyzed elsewhere. Unfortunately, because of this memory problem and because of other obvious reasons, "the Holy Sacrament" has degenerated into an entirely different practice, having nothing whatsoever to do with the true meaning of what a "Holy Sacrament" was.
It is only natural that modern churches have distanced themselves from Cannabis, since the awareness Cannabis provides, eventually gives one insight which goes contrary to established laws, religious, state or otherwise. Cannabis causes the mind to be associated with a peaceful sensation of belonging to the entire universe, with obvious insight into the hows and whys things work in our world. This naturally opposes the purposes of the rich and powerful (including those who sit on top of official churches), so it had to be outlawed, because it promotes this very mind-set.
Therefore most Christian churches todate have lost the "true" meaning of this communion and have substituted it for wine. As a result, it appears no official church holds the actual true teachings of Christianity anymore.
Believers and Non-believers in "Jesus"
Several people insist on a demystification of the Cannabis experience, claiming that the experience itself is always subjective, thus all connections to religion are pure bunk, resulting from additional bogus mental associations. Therefore, we have two classes of Cannabis users: Those who immediately recognize "God" behind the experience, and those who simply view it as a "recreational drug".
Those who view Cannabis as a Sacred experience, are the true followers of "Jesus" and those who view Cannabis a recreational drug are those who consider "Jesus" a plain (existent or not) human being and otherwise don't view him as the "Son of God".
The above distinction becomes important, because it is easy to see that the true identity of the principal idea of "Christ", is nothing more than the very first Cannabis experience itself. According to ancient Gnostic texts, the Genesis' Serpent WAS Christ, who showed Adam and Eve the way to enlightment. The allegory then becomes quite obvious now, from a literal interpretation of Genesis: Adam and Eve (the first humans) had coexisted with the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Cannabis) since the very beginning, but were unaware of its presence, until they tasted it. How did they taste it? With the help of the Gnostic Serpent (The Christ), who somehow "knew" about it.
Christ as the Cannabis Experience
In a literal interpretation of Genesis, the Christ/Serpent is The Cannabis Experience as an ideal. The experience itself manifests initially as "The Serpent of Wisdom", exactly as "The One" character manifests initially in the Matrix scenario according to Morpheus, who when the Matrix was first made, "had the ability to change The Matrix at will". Again according to Morpheus, "he was the one who freed the first one of us...". In the Gnostic dogma, the one who freed us from the bonds of God was the Serpent of Wisdom.
It is interesting that in the following "diagram" of the names of God (from Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652-54)), the names are all appended to what looks like a huge plant:
http://ioannis.virtualcomposer2000.com/writing/figs/names_of_God.jpg
In the words of Jesus himself, John 14:6: "Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Literally, no one can attain perfect understanding about "The System", unless one experiences Cannabis.
Again in terms of the Bible, John 6:46: "No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father." Literally, no one knows perfectly (or can describe accurately) the Father/System, except the Cannabis experience itself. Only the Cannabis experience itself "sees" the Father directly.
In other words, Christ is that which allows man to come close to God. But so is Cannabis. Christ then, literally translated, IS The Cannabis Experience. The Cannabis Experience is He/She/It who has an overall view of things, metaphysically or spiritually. It is exactly this "overall view of things" which is the root of the Greek word "THEOS". Literally, The Overseer.