Posted on Dec 14th, 2007
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Jodell
For years I have taken groups on journeys to the Crystal Realms where we meet the Light Beings who are Co-Creators of our Dreams, our Mythos, our true life force. These journeys have given me the meaning for my life. And, yet at various events I have often been approached by young spiritual seekers which questions about hallucinogens. Did my ancestors use them? If we are speaking about my Ilocano Ancestors from the Philippines, no there are no indications that there were such hallucinogens. If we speak about mind altering substances, of course they did. Every substance we consume alters our mind. And, in the ancient minds, eating and not eating, breathing and not breathing, doing and not doing all affect the state of mind. My ancestors were masters of self awareness and focus.
Humans, as well as other animals have always been attracted to substances - air, water, etc. Birds may even inbibe in the spirits of fermented berries. When the natives used substances, they were using them in nature. Even the halucinogens of the rainforest was used for intent. When the scientists came across the indegenous forms of mind altering substances, they de-natured those substances. When those substances were stripped of natural herbal components, nature's intelligence of protective mechanisms such as enzymes to break down molecules were omitted. Chemical molecules which does not grow organically is not organic. All that creates our bodies are organic. Believe it or not, science as a knowledge base does not know all that there is to know about organisms. They do not know every combination and permutation of the DNA. There is no half-way mark to knowledge. Nature has created infinate mathematically unique structures. Even if we knew all there was to know about the mathematics of our planet, we will not know the mathematics of another solar system. The entire basis of our sciences may be lost in realms of the unknown when guestimating the possibilities.
Anyone who has attended a workshop with me knows that I do not allow mind altering drug use in and around the work that we do. I have not allowed any persons with drug use abits into the realms of my work. Why? Because experiencing the death of self needs no drug. Once we process the experience of deathing, we are not effected by drugs. Yet using drugs can be a hindrance to acknowledging that there are realms of experience beyond the body. Drugs effect the body, not the mind. I am defining mind as mind of the soul. I use that to signify the shamanic traditions of the Hethens of pre-modern Northern Europeans. I feel and have felt for some decades that the need for drugs comes from the needs of the soul. souls desire to return to a state of knowledge and take short cuts to those realms. Various drugs can take them into states of mind in which they can access their soul materials to certain degrees. However, they can become stuck in not being able to transcend those states of mind which lead to the realms of the light beings.
I began studying the work of Dr. John Lily as a teenager. Decades later, I met a woman who knew him. Later, I read his AutoBiography. He did travel to light realms under a fatal drug which he used to reach those states. After LSD was discovered then later synthesized in college chemisty laboratories by students, it became fashionable to "take a trip." Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, I witnessed many people on trips on the streets of Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco. From childhood through to adulthood, I am living observer of the history of drug use in the San Francisco Bay and surrounding counties of Northern California. I have seen the destruction of families and friends and associations. I have noted the intensity of the issues over the years. I have had countless clients who were recovering from self-destruction and clients who were recovering from family members being abusive.
Having been a life long resident of California, I had thought it was an issue of the Hippie Era gone radically crazy. But over the years, I discovered from people around the world that substance abuse is a global issue. Indigenous populations where there has been decades of poverty, tribal peoples where there has been decades of poverty, rural areas where there has been povery all share a comman issue. It comes to my attention time and again that Crystal Methamphedamines is one of the destructive drugs which seems to effect a person intensely. Rationality seems to fly out of the window with people who have used this drug, When I was a child, PCP seemed to be a sumilar pernicious danger. One of the dangers of these drugs is that some people dip marijuana into these substances and sell that for smoking. So, the marijuana that once seemed organic is no longer organic.
I know law enforcement officers who believe that marijuana should be legal and some who also know that if it is not legalized, using it from sources unknown is dangerous. I personally do not believe in substances of any kind other than chocolate (organic of course) but nature did create substances to be in the Oneness. I am not against legalizing a substance if it is natural. However, the dangerous practice of consuming Crystal Meth is an issue the healing community needs to address as this substance has reached alarming rates of abuse. Anyone who works in human services - social, psychological, medical - most likely is aware of the epidemic usage and its effects in communities across the USA.
The issues I have comitted my life force to is the right of each individual to use his/her own God Given Source of Creativity. I am not been a fan of replacing God with Self. Instead, I believe that the Light Beings within each of us give us the right to be One with God/Source/Creator. We all have the right to pursue our own image within God. Yet as a group mind, we all have the responsibility to participate as a Co-Creator. I do not believe in idolizing fear: I believe in facing fear and releasing it. I feel that if we can name our Demons, we have won half the battle. I am calling this demon out of the closet because there will be no cure for hallucinations and paranoia except self-awareness and pursuit of a spiritual path. Once the seeker has begun down the path, there is only the end of the tunnel. And, as someone who travels down those tunnels, leading others, I know that the challenges ahead for those who wish to heal persons under the influence of such drug use are some of the greatest challenges we will face as healers.
Love & Light,
Many Blessings
Jodell Bumatay
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