Ra on marijuana

[Diana]

The physical body, in my opinion and experience, must be taken into consideration. You can pollute the body with bad food, or smoke cigarettes, and this won't prevent you from advancing along your path of evolving. But if you don't do those things, it frees the energy up (expended dealing with keeping the body healthy and the mind balanced—I'm referring to endorphin and serotonin levels) to be used elsewhere, and makes everything a little clearer in the overall experience. It's like taking a rock out of the sack of rocks one is carrying as a burden through 3D. 

I don't deny the benefits of hallucinogens in expanding the rigid belief systems of the mind, or the destressing attributes of alcohol or marijuana. Hallucinogens may be efficacious in the initial phase of breaking open the doors of perception, but they take a toll on the body and it would be wise, I think, to nurture the body accordingly if one is going to use them. It also might be attractive to be in that nonlinear place, but it doesn't make sense to come here just to escape here. So it seems that there is a fine line that might be observed between using certain mind-altering substances (loosely termed) positively or negatively.  

As far as marijuana is concerned, it skews perception no matter how you look at it, aside from the results of the smoke in the throat and lungs. I'm not sure whether the skewing of perception gets one closer or farther away from self truth. But it does seem to impair intellectual acuity in terms of organization.

Regarding channeling, it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me to be under the influence of any substance other than one's own carefully balanced and integrated mind/body/spirit.