Exposing The Myth Of Recreational Substance-Use: How It Can Dilute Your Consciousness
Right now, humanity is being pushed to break out of the bubble of untruths concealing our divine nature, and to rediscover the immense treasures that lie beneath the surface. Given this climate, I feel it is time for me to share my latest insight about one of the strongest hooks by the Counterforce that has us hypnotised under a spell of powerlessness: the allure of substances.
As a non-mainstream addiction therapist who have freed myself from the condition and helped others do the same, my perspectives on the topic have evolved overtime. What I know now is that it is not enough to deal with substance abuse, but substance use as well.
At this point when we are rising to more sophisticated levels of our consciousness, we are confronting blocks that are less apparent; those that masquerade as life-enhancing whilst progressively diminishing our divine light. Concurrently, the forces opposing the Agenda of Light are resorting to more insidious schemes as we increasingly break through the illusion of false narratives that have imprisoned us.
The Higher Truth is: Life has more than enough to give us. We don’t need any substance to enhance anything. If you feel that the opposite is true, that life actually sucks, it’s usually because you have not given Life a chance to reveal its full scope of beauty and magic. The use of substances takes us further away from it, while deceiving us of the contrary.
Programmed Thoughts Around Substance Use
“I don’t need to use it, I choose to.”
This is an argument that clients typically get into with me, whenever I enquire sincerely why they feel the need to take a certain recreational drug.
But no one has ever been able to give me an answer, beyond that statement. Like a broken record, they are stuck repeating the same despite my further diggings.
“I’m not addicted to it; it is my choice to take it.”
“Is it really your choice?” I would challenge. “Why do you feel you want to take it?”
Here is where the programmed script will have run its course.
“What do you feel is missing, that you need this drug to give you?” The immediate reply is often that nothing is missing, it is just for enhancement.
“So life is not enough, that’s why you need an enhancement?”
“I don’t need to, I just choose to,” the same programmed statement is uttered again.
Perhaps you have gone through the same argument with yourself. I know I have. Until I realised how faulty that logic is. It makes no sense, yet we are regurgitating these statements as if they are infallible truths. This points to it being part of an agenda of control and enslavement.
Indulging in substance-use is a programmed activity. Those who don’t want you to thrive have made you think it is your choice, thereby trapping you in the kind of thinking loops I described above, never to escape the intended subjugation.
From a centred position, sincerely ask yourself this question: is it really an empowered choice? If it is really your choice, then why do you feel you want to do it? Go beyond the defensiveness of your ego; this way, you will connect with the truth instead of perpetuating a lie.
Fear of being seen as boring (aka fear of being excluded)
“People will think I am boring,” is a common thought that holds one to using substances. What they are really afraid of is being ostracised by their social groups, and their minds are likely to go into extreme scenarios of isolation and loneliness.
Underlying it is a story that those who do not indulge in substance-use are boring. Unlike the illusion of having a choice, where one can genuinely be unaware of being stuck in faulty logic, the fear of being seen as boring is usually conscious. The choice to continue using is, therefore, a conscious one.
It takes reaching a point where you no longer want to be governed by fears to step out of the cycle. It is the ultimate freedom when you no longer seek validation from others and can live contented within yourself.
Fear of being bored
“If I give up everything, life will be boring.”
This is another lie the Counterforce has us believing. The truth is, addictively seeking escape leads to boredom, not the giving-up of it.
It is a myth that using recreational drugs (I include alcohol in this category) can bring something new and exciting. Substance-induced highs are at best a diluted version of something real and natural; most of the time, they are just hallucinations produced by a mind warped by the drug.
Consuming substances closes the gaps through which real magic and illuminant power can pour. Our consciousness does not require anything to open it up to greater potentials. It can do so by itself, by how you hold and manoeuvre it.
The more time away from substances, the more joy, wonderment, beauty and magic you will discover.
People are obsessively pouring power into the idea that no substance means a boring life. Hence, they are locking it into their reality, creating it being true when there is no objective truth to it. At any moment, it can be replaced by another story. If you then invest power into this story, it will become the subjective truth. It is just as easy to create this story being true instead. Thus, you’re not without options; you are freer than you think you are.
“But how?” (pretending to be stuck)
This is a programmed response designed to stop us from getting to a stage of transformation. It’s a way for us to pretend to be stuck, and therefore, perpetuating the illusion that we are indeed stuck.
People tend to be too quick to ask, “But how?” instead of taking time to digest and assimilate concepts to a point where the “how” is presented. It’s an automatic reaction programmed to disrupt the natural process of information and application.
In truth, you do know. So, before you say, “But how?” stay in the space of not-yet-known. Don’t be too quick to close the gap.
In this space, rest in the Stillness and the Silence. The answer to “how” lies waiting for your reception. By allowing the mental noise to dissipate, you will connect to the answer.
Substances enhance what is good
This one has the hallmarks of the Counterforce’s tactics of lure and seduction. It cons us into thinking there is something positive to be gained.
Rather than enhancing the good, it creates a distorted view and experience of what “good” actually is. There is nothing more blissful and joyful than simply being present, clean, clear and conscious. A natural sensation of peace and elation emerges in that state. Substances take you away from that.
Moreover, the use of substances is a tool for avoidance. The effects of substances can be a quick fix allowing you to escape unpleasant feelings. But the pain does not go away, it is simply masked temporarily. Using substances does nothing to help the issue; in fact, it prevents you from healing it.
But what about marijuana, mushrooms, psychedelics, ayahuasca and other plant medicines?
In the spirituality, healing, health and wellness communities at large, there tends to be a misconception that certain plant-derived substances are good for us.
One of the greatest programmings is around the use of marijuana. I see people using it as an excuse to stay in addictions. Most people who indulge in marijuana are trapped in a cycle of addiction, with the predominantly-accepted ideology around it justifying its continued use.
In more recent years, micro-dosing on mushroom derivatives has been adopted as part of a health-promoting lifestyle. Like many of these plant substances, it is advertised as being beneficial to our health – whether it is physical health, mental health, or a healthy way of expanding our consciousness.
In cases where a substance does arguably yield all those benefits, there is a negative side-effect seldom mentioned. With any substance use, even if it does expand your consciousness in the moment, the long-term effect is a diminishing of its natural function, a suppression of its full potential.
Ayahuasca, ibogaine and the likes are often used to facilitate deep shamanic journeys for healing and spiritual awakening. Undoubtedly, they can be effective in achieving that outcome. The problem comes when we assign power to something outside of us and overlooking the tremendous power of our own consciousness.
We do not need a substance per se to bridge to soul-level healing work. They do, however, perform an important function of removing the egoic aspect of the consciousness, so that we can enter into a deeper realm. But it does not mean that we can only achieve that by taking something external.
Practising seeing through the illusion of our ego is a worthwhile pursuit. Instead of relying on psychedelics to do the job, there is the option of gently returning to our pure consciousness, untainted by programmed thoughts. Here, we can embark on an internally-guided soul journey just as profound and life-changing.
The experience of a plant medicine journey should be treated as a point of reference, for us to then find it within ourselves.
NEXT-LEVEL AWARENESS:
The Five Stages of Being Substance-Free
If you’re still indulging in substances, whether addictively or recreationally (in my books they are one and the same), I have a framework that can help guide you through a transition to being clean, clear and conscious.
There are five stages that one goes through when stopping the use of substance:
#1 BOREDOM
The onset of stopping a substance is a powerful phase. During this time, you come face-to-face with the lies and deceptions that have lured you into substance-use. It is a chance to see through the illusion as the untruths are being presented.
This is when boredom is most common. The boredom comes from a sudden change, the loss of a habit resulting in not knowing what else to do in its place. If you’ve focused a lot of energy into a habit and you suddenly stop doing it, that place you’re left with can seem empty as you adapt.
#2 ANGER, FRUSTRATION
As you stay in boredom, you start to connect to a feeling that you’ve been robbed of something, that your choice was removed from you, as if you’ve been forced into something not entirely of your own choosing.
You get angry. The anger of abstinence.
Instead of thinking of it as deprivation, think of it as giving back life to yourself. Take stock of what it is costing you. You were losing something; the change will return something precious to you.
#3 DEPRESSION, DULLNESS
Anger and frustration will eventually subside – giving way to a sense of dullness, even depression, as your system adjusts itself and attempts to find new ways of feeling alive. If you’re open to discovering what else might be there, you will flow through this stage more easily.
Most people recovering from substance abuse through conventional modalities do not go beyond this stage. It is widely-accepted that giving up substances ends here, and one simply white-knuckles through the rest of their life. Fortunately, it is far from the end of the line.
#4 GROWTH IN STRENGTH BRINGING JOY
As you continue to adopt an openness to something else being there, sometimes by sheer blind faith, your foundation will grow stronger with time.
At some point, you will connect to a spark of knowing, an energy guiding you to keep staying here and be receptive to the something-else. [Read Tapping Into The Ecstatic Realm: What Lies Beyond Illusions.]
You start to notice aspects of transformation within you. You have a deep appreciation for certain improvements to your health and wellness. There is a palpable sense of the trajectory going on an upswing.
#5 JOY, BLISS, ECSTATIC
Here, you begin to experience the natural sensations of joy and bliss. You discover this is your natural state of simply being Present. No escape, no artificial enhancement, no egoic thought patterns. You can see a higher-consciousness perspective of why you do not need anything to improve anything. You truly know this, and thus, you are now free.
There’s a shift into a kind of Enlightenment as you comprehend, finally, some higher spiritual concepts and how they are tied to the whole point of being substance-free – such as the Buddhist concept of non-desire.
We tend to interpret these concepts through our egoic mind and fail to grasp their true meanings. Non-desire can bring up the meaning that it is boring but only if perceived through the ego. Non-desire is a state of neutrality; again, the ego will interpret it as lacking excitement, but that is a limited perspective.
Non-desire means we collapse all mental constructs to reveal the vastness that lies beyond what we know. This vastness is a realm so exciting it surpasses what the ego can understand. It is the essence that infuses our lives with true joy and excitement, thereby ending the cycle of pursuing the illusion.
You are free, alive, clean, and aligned with your infinite consciousness.
