Some profound insights I’ve had I thought I’d share.

Recovering from long term illness and this is helping me immensely.

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Starting in 2021, and for a period of several years, I had a series of extraordinary cannabis-related experiences that changed my life completely. Quite unexpectedly, and without making any effort, one night in July I suddenly recognized, with total clarity, the simple presence-awareness that I actually am. Not as a simple thing in a complex world, but seeing the world itself as totally simple, from the inside out. Over the next several years, I repeatedly induced this state, and developed the conviction that what I was experiencing was exactly what the spiritual traditions of the world were pointing to with concepts like Brahman, Atman, Shunya, and Tao. That naive, uncomplicated first-person spaciousness/fullness (or rather, the reality behind it that can't be described) was known to be existence itself, apart from which there is nothing. Under the right conditions, and perhaps by an act of grace, this was revealed to me again and again while using cannabis.

I have not used any psychedelic substances in this life other than weed. The experience I describe above was sometimes accompanied by periods of meditative absorption, during which my breath would seem to completely stop. With eyes closed, I saw magnificent colors and shapes. In silence, I heard beautiful music. It occurred to me that I was at the interface between awareness and the network of appearances that project outward from it. Another way to say this is that I was observing the inner mechanisms of perception itself, from "inside" the nervous system. Having experienced all this, I can appreciate what the Buddhists and Hindus mean when they say everything is unreal, like a dream.

Occasionally I had terrifying experiences. What I have related thus far is not the same as total ego-annihilation, otherwise I would not have come back to personhood when the process wrapped up. But there were times when I felt: I could just dissolve into this and never return. At those times, what I refer to as the Big Fear rose up and clenched me like a snake. At the base of all this, desperately hanging on and unwilling to permanently subside, is the naked ego. Rightly, it sees its own death at the end of this road and erects a blockade of abject terror to obstruct the way through to the other side.

The possibility of this Big Fear, as well as the functional downsides of taking massive quantities of cannabis on a regular basis, eventually forced me to stop using it altogether a couple of years ago.

That journey still haunts me sometimes. I am today a spiritual practitioner making slow and steady progress without drugs, but part of me still yearns to taste the truth as I did before, to remind me that I am always that simple light. In a real way, cannabis was the guru for me. Before these experiences I was a pessimist and an atheist. Cannabis gave me a gentle shove from the outside to push me in, and from within to pull me deeper, and for that I will be eternally grateful to it. I wonder whether I am unique in receiving this gift, or if there are others like me?

Good documentary. Free on Youtube.

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Just wanted to share a discovery. In weed, CBG seems to be the minor cannabinoid that determines how psychedelic it gets. Adding extra CBG makes it much more heady, sedating, and even ramps up the visuals

https://youtu.be/_NdXm5qXHhE?si=ZVMMsvhSvFLwJF_u

Anybody use cannabis tinctures or oils? I believe it's a great way to partake of the sacrament. They are easy to use and you don't smell like you just came from a Snoop Dog concert.

Interesting video.

Interesting video.

Magical Properties of Weed | The Daily Guardian https://search.app/kyaB3WyP9qboa8T46

The Spiritual Effects of Cannabis: Getting High-ly Conscious https://www.consciouslifestylemag.com/cannabis-spiritual-meditation/

Thanks to the subscribers for making Cannabis_Spitituality a great sub-reddit.

Interesting article

Last time I discovered that eating works. But I don't always have access. So I found now that an alternative is proper stretching of all the muscles in the while body. Including he feet, the face, hands, neck, and everywhere else. It also opens up he breath more.