I've found over the years, that there does exist such a person in our society that has never taken any entheogenic substances and as such has never had the full and requisite human experience. That fact has continued to worry me to this day, to the very point that I've decided there needs to be something about not only the substances but an actual guide, a method or practice in which a person can indoctrinate themselves (and others) into the often and sometimes long forgotten hyperspacial dimensions that once were our very birthright. Western societies have long relegated the likes of the calming cannabis and the enlightening psilocybin mushrooms to being used by dumb hippies, criminally minded youth or evil cults all of whom care not for their version of the greater good. In reality these two wonderful products, of the very same universe that created us, are the biochemically engineered keys to enlightening the mind and enriching the spirit. Hardly a bad thing, I'd have to say.
The misconceptions run so numerous and so asinine that I'd rather just dispense with them completely. The truth of the matter is, that within the power of these two formidable members of the plant and fungi kingdoms lay the keys to Humanity's forgotten past and future salvation. I do believe in no uncertain terms, that if every society in the world adopted these practices as mainstays of their culture, the whole of the world would be significantly better off for it.
"What exactly is he talking about?", you may be asking yourself.
Well, to put this succinctly, what I'm advocating for is the sustained, long term ritualized usage of marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms in general population with multi-generational usage ideally with parental and societal (or group) support and encouragement.
Those that are obvious and in desperate immediate need of the help of these practices are the people born of the current global system and climate, especially those born to any Western-style nation state. Deluded and dehumanized, beaten down psychologically and physically poisoned. Once empowered maybe, just maybe, I hope that they could then get their collective act together and ultimately be ready, willing and champing at the bit to cast off the previous dominator archetype which has held them hostage for so many millennia. Countless times now in my life I've been presented with example after example of people in need of these two marvelous creatures. How many times have you seen the person who is just ALWAYS angry? Or the person who just can't imagine anything bigger than themselves and their own petty world? Together we can fix that. You, I, the plants and the fungi, we can come together to heal humanity one individual at a time. To bring back the realizations that we are the hands of fate and that we do occupy a very special place in this universe.
I am not just thinking short term here either. I pose this to you: Think about the grandchildren of this policy… Now, for those still under the control of (whatever authority mechanism got you) may recoil in horror at the mere thought of three generations of westerners all not only doing drugs but telling and encouraging their children to take them as well. Scary as it is I'm sure but here's what I pose to you instead as some possible outcomes. Those grand kids will grow up with parents that will posses the intact and innate love for nature, humanity and all of the universe. They will get to know parents that, instead of being led like cattle to a slaughter, have the ability to see THROUGH the various diabolical methods of control the world is fraught with. To quote George Carlin, "Children should be taught to question authority." Those children and grand children of that first brave generation of trailblazers who would dare to pick up the ancient torch long dropped, they would benefit in marvelous and unforeseen ways.
I do believe humanity has within the capability and capacity, with or without these tools of the natural kingdom, to reach ever greater heights, the difference is in how we arrive at those end points. Did we conduct ourselves with dignity and honor on our journey or rather did we collectively trash everything around us, including each other, in order to achieve some of our individual goals?