But Moses' Indulgence is
not the problem. Whether it was DMT or not, hallucinogenic drug or not is not even the issue. Because when
the whole world was living in hatred to talk about love is Indulgent.
When whole world is at war to talk of peace is being Indulgent. When the
whole world was living in violence and slavery delivering God’s message is
sheer Madness!
It is fairly simple to
understand that one will speak the language one knows and the one that one’s
audience can understand or relate with. That is why many suggestions
sound like sermons; road maps are delivered as Gospel, SOPs as
Testaments. It is perhaps a limitation of religious practices that these
testaments are not reinvented or re-written/worded to make sense to the
changing intellectual level of the audience.
You may have lot of
grouse or could be totally against religion, orthodoxy and control of religious
institutions but please do not give in to the temptation of supporting one evil
in order protest against the other. Your problem is not whether Moses
indulged or not. It will make not much difference to you, personally. It
may, at best, support you in an argument of sorts, in a living room discussion
for whatever it is worth.
So what is the problem?
Your problem is with Indulgence itself not Moses. With what
you have believed in for so many years or with what you have been made to
believe. So let us attempt to dispel this Instead. Why should we
have a problem with Indulgence?
Most religions teach,
morally impose restriction (sin), even punish by laws (crime) and furiously
preach (sermons) against any form of indulgence of this nature; of drugs,
alcohol and other forms of intoxication.
But the very fact that
intoxication has remained an integral part of human life is an indication that
we have always wanted, needed to get our minds off our everyday life,
our version of it. Animals don't go looking for intoxication. It is
only the humans who have always done so.
Your problem with this
research or with Moses' Indulging in DMT is either in defense of the religious
teaching that you believe in or in your defiance to religion which is showing
up as "Why should I believe a Junkie?" Either ways it is
indicates that you have a negative conversation about Indulgence itself that
deserves correction, for your own sake!
Whatever your faith
maybe, you believe in the church or you don’t, (Church here refers to any
religious institution) you are influenced by the ideology propagated or
promoted by the church. Your idea of morality, of good and bad, right and
wrong is probably coming from there. If you are a believer in the devil and the
divine as two opposite forces is also coming from there.
Seriously, I have known
many people who are against churches but believe in the theology as much.
It is quite likely that your belief against Indulgence is also a byproduct of
the same ideology of good/bad that seems to have been planted very skill
fully in side of you that keeps you mediocre - plain janes... for ever making
noises but achieving nothing.. Significant!
If you look around you,
most people or Ideas that have had any impact or major impact on human
societies, human lives all come from the same realm of indulgence!
Whether it is Jesus, Adi Shankaracharya or Buddha, Hitler or Mussolini, Martin
Luther King Jr or Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela or Mother Theresa.... Einstein
or Google or Facebook! They come from the land of Indulgence, not the land of
survivalist or the commoners or the land of people who live a very limited
circumstantial life governed by norms, precedence and mass beliefs.
Many traditional
societies in the World are much more tolerance to indulgences - drug induced
psychedelic trips, to hash or marijuana, Hemp or even alcohol etc. because the
significance was always to party or merry making or the contribution one is
making to self and other seekers through these 'trips' than to the trip itself.
It has always been an expression of rebellion, the urge to go beyond the
limitedness of one’s beliefs and existence. Whether it is the the Yogis,
shamans or even the Hippies Armed Forces, the war survivors... the purpose is
different, indulgence is different... DMT is an aid or an expression, that's
all!
It is the modern or
orthodox societies who've imposed so many do's and don'ts, musts and should, so
much so that we have become totally hypocritical! While a Drug is a
medicine if prescribed by a Doctor, Alcohol is good for business, Tobacco is
very good for Economy, Sugar is the bestseller, GMO is good for controlling the
weak and the poor ... cannabis, hemp and marijuana organic but is not
good…
Look! I am not trying to
promote use of any intoxicant…. My purpose of this monologue is to draw your
attention to the more vital issues that often gets ignored.
We, as a society, have become more fearful, insecure and hence
hypocritical than ever before. Never before have the human society been
in need of a social, political, economic and spiritual renaissance and never
before were we plum and ready for one that is necessary and waiting.
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