Pot, otherwise known as cannabis or marijuana, is considered a spiritual
medicine and has been used as such since 2000 BC because it is a
psychoactive drug. Pot is considered psychoactive because it can alter
one's state of consciousness. Altering one's consciousness helps them
to break free of illusion and the restriction of limited perception.
The
number one benefit of cannabis is that it helps people to release
resistance. By affecting the brain like it does, it inhibits the brain
from focusing on and translating the resistant, stressful thoughts that
cause a negative emotional response within the body. This is why it is
so effective at reducing stress. And this is also why it is so
effective for the use of pain management. Pain is a symptom of
resistance. By causing a person to release resistance and "flow
downstream with life" a person is free to be who they really are. More
of their true essence is present in the absence of resistance and this
is why people often undergo such intense spiritual experiences while
under the influence of cannabis. But this is also why it is used
recreationally.
If a person tries to escape their resistance by using
a tool like cannabis, they have learned nothing but to be dependent on
the tool. They may have increased their awareness of what is beyond
this dimension, but they have not learned anything about how to access
states of consciousness beyond the 3-D consciousness on their own,
without the use of an external substance/tool. In essence, they have
become powerlessly dependent.
While these medicines are often life
changing because they can serve to crack through the illusion of the
physical dimension so a person can peer beyond the illusion, they all
too often become a person's only way of transitioning their
consciousness into a "more spiritual" state. They then become a crutch
that disables a person from reaching those states organically. The
feeling state created by these medicines becomes an addiction and the
more subtle transition of increasing one's vibration and altering one's
focus so as to facilitate an organic shift in consciousness, no longed
registers as a "special and noteworthy experience" when compared with
the intensity of the radical break from reality, caused by the
medicines. So often the drug itself becomes the person's only access to
spirituality. The drug itself becomes the religion.
In this episode, TEAL explains the benefits and drawbacks to using pot in spiritual practice.
