Drugs are good!… or not?

You’d probably have heard since you were a child that drugs are a bad thing and you’d better stay away from them.

Since I agree with this assertion, and I think it is quite useful that all adult people hold this opinion in order to grow our kids as healthy as we can, I won’t deny that drugs are not a good thing. But, once you have reached an age where you escaped from the temptation of becoming a junkie… It’s time to loose our fears on drugs as they just were a monster coming from the woods and look at them as what they really are: just Brain Chemistry.

I admit it: I’ve never taken any drug. I mean, illegal ones. In other words, I’ve never played with my Brain Chemistry (BC) in a hard way. To get partially drunk it’s just one stage most of us never go beyond.

Then, there are some people that really wants to go a step farther, and gets involved in alternative worlds like hippie communities, trance music raves, etc. where another kind of substances are consumed regularly, like natural mushrooms or LSD (whose molecule is shown in the picture). When you talk with people they are experienced LSD consumers, it’s so easy to get astonished by the things they tell you,even the way they do, the words they use, and the worlds they describe. For the ones of us who are interested in open our minds to new perceptions; it’s definitively a temptation and one thinks to give it a try.

But, as many other things in this life, it’s possible to reach the same point through several different paths. And the fact that I lately have become more close to trance music it’s not because I decided to take in psichodelic drugs (that I don’t). It’s the fact that I discovered I am experiencing the same emotions, the same awareness, and at last the same whole experience by probably triggering the same chemical reactions in my brain with no external help of weird substances.

In other words, I generate my own drugs that take me sometimes to similar mind states of those ones who just decided to take the direct path using LSD and others… Human Brain is an intrincate labyrinth with lots of walls and ends that may be pulled down in order to expand our mind and reveal new realities (as long as reality is whatever our mind perceives). Drugs make it easy to do that job, though it’s dangerous because of unexpected side effects you cannot control.

There’s a softer, slower way to open your mind without the need of any drug. Just exercise it. Just live. It’s kind of what Zen monks use to do, but with heavier practices. At the end, both the LSD junkie and you would have seen the same Oceans of Blissful Awareness. The difference is that you don’t spend your life in weird hippie camp partying with some other marginal guys that only seek for drugs to forget their daily problems. In other words, you’re one of them but with the aspect of a regular, “good” citizen…