Non-sober Meditations

[APeacefulWarrior]

I tend to see the Law of Responsibility basically boiling down to Stan Lee's "with great power comes great responsibility." Once someone has a revelation about the way the universe works, they can't ignore it just because it turns out to be inconvenient to their everyday lives, at least not without karmic backlash. Things done in ignorance are neutral, in terms of polarity, but acting contrary to things one knows/believes to be true is ultimately on the negative path.

Like personally, not that I was ever a Lothario, but once I realized just HOW powerful\spiritual\important sexuality could be, my next realization was that I'd just created serious restrictions on who I could sleep with and still feel good about myself. That was the Law of Responsibility demonstrating itself. But it's probably just as well, since I never really liked casual hookups anyway.

(And thus that which is not needed falls away... )

In the case of marijuana, or other mind-expanding drugs, I suspect the risks would be more internal. Plenty of people have blown their minds in a too-literal sense on psychedelics, and tried to take in too much of the universe at once without enough preparation. I see types like that from time to time on Reddit's /r/psychonauts board. I would see the responsibility in this situation as largely being responsibility towards self; having enough self-knowledge and self-love to know when it's time to take time off to process the insights, rather than ceaselessly forging onwards and upwards at the risk of madness.

/disclaimer: I'm terrible at following that particular piece of advice.