Using Drugs for Self Enlightment
This post is based on the last chapter of the book In the Paths of Our Fathers: Insights into Pirkei Avot from the Works of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Using Drugs to Obtain Spiritual Enlightenment
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Fact number One:
Everything in existence has a purpose, a positive use, otherwise it would not exist.
It could take decades to prove this statement extensively, but with a little effort we can always find a good use, a good result, even the worst things that come to our minds. Divorces, prostitution, even bestiality, events that are thought to be bad, have its place and its use.
Drugs themselves are ambiguous. They can severely harm, but many times, they have a noble purpose, and can produce good results.
Legal drugs are drugs just like illegal. The only difference is that they have a “controlled” label on them.
Illegal drugs are not controlled, therefore doomed as dangerous. In fact most of them are. Yet they may have a use that could not be found anywhere else.
My favorite example in this case is pot. It damages the memory, as a proven fact. Nevertheless it stimulates introspection, something that may solve help a lot, if properly dosed.
The regular effect of alcohol will get people closer. There goes the saying: I never drink alone. Therefore alcohol, when properly used, has a purpose too.
I met people that claim to have spoken to spirits or realized how fragile life really is after coming back from hallucinogen trips. Fine, healthy real people, which in many cases had no other choice other than go through these experience in order to keep growing their life path.
Fact Number Two:
You are the only person on existence responsible for your health.
These experiences may be sometimes vital for spiritual growth nevertheless; they can harm irrecoverably brain and body. Many cases, just like a bad marriage, incorrect use may damage brain and body forever; we have plenty of cases around. We all know or heard about someone. It happens every day.
We had no choice about being born, no one asked us if we were interested or not and many of us don’t even know what we came here for, or what we are supposed to accomplish. Our chosen life goals, preferences, ambitions, are invariably different from one another. Drugs either legal or illegal will be many times, a resource, for some of use, like an aspirin, to be used, and then dispensed.
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You have made a good point here. But nevertheless, illegal drugs outweighs the good benefit. It’s sad.
Nice post! I think sometimes.. there are things in life that you are probably better off not knowing or bother with.. bad drugs are one of them.
Nice post. I also know some people that change their life after trying drugs….