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Originally Posted by Elizabeth  Drugs provide known falseness. Recognizing the truth can be practiced by recognizing falseness for what it is, and drugs are an "easy" way of changing perspectives from true to false, and hopefully back again. If the brain is not permanently damaged in the process, one can recognize some truth and falseness of different perspectives.
Learning truth from falseness through drugs, though, is not nearly as beneficial as learning truth from falseness through reality. The problem with using reality as your learning stage is it is harder to determine the difference between truth and falseness. The ultimate solution, though, is a mentor (or mentors) who are well versed in practical logic - which is the true beacon into the darkness that overshadows reality.
Drugs are ultimatly one more shadow, and this shadow borrows the batteries from your beacon, as one can not use logic as well when on drugs, and reality is necessarily distorted.
Most peoples' experiences of reality are distortions of reality anyway, and for many people, the distortions are better for them than the truth. There actually are very few people who can survive in unadulterated reality, but for those few sages, truth rips out their core more thouroughly than any quantity of drugs ever could. Drugs pull at the core before putting reality in focus, so the best effect drugs can provide is a deeper hunger for less delusions - which means no more drugs. The worst is the delusions slip in under the core, which goes back when the drugs wear off, and the delusions fester into a deeper distortion of the truth. |
Thank you Elizabeth for your post,very true indeed,I spent many years counselling and
trying to help those with alcohol and drug dependencies.
regards michael.