The Weed Thread

[Spiritualchaos]

To begin with, thank you for sharing this very fascinating topic. I believe I agree with everything you mentioned, as I have experienced/felt all these things myself through my own experiences. I feel like I could add a few books worth of information on this topic, as I have been smoking medical marijuana for almost 15 years, and am obsessively studying the effects it has on myself and those around me. I used to have my medical license here in Canada for almost a decade before it was legalized.

I am extremely sensitive as a result of my spiritual origins and empathic gifts so I have struggled with a lot of depression, pain, and anxiety over the years, although the anxiety and depression have been pretty much gone for the last 3 years now. I also have “Fibromyalgia,” even though I feel that is the default diagnosis they give you when something wrong with you can’t be proven with science, and do not resonate with it.

I started smoking weed regularly in 2006, and being in that “altered state” is pretty much my natural functioning state now. Most people can’t even tell I smoke weed, because I feel like it dulls my oversensitivity to the point where I can function more normally, and I am not as overwhelmed by the noises, sounds, smells, and other sensations that are too much without it. As a weird paradox, it also enhances all of the sensations in my body as well, but not in a way that is painful. I can feel my energy body very easily, as being able to pick up on the sensations became easier as the more awaken, I have become. I will break it down in the mind/body/spirit categories to explain what I have experienced with marijuana. I feel over the years, the positive effects experienced from smoking weed have finally caught up to how I feel inside, so the difference between sober me and non-sober me is pretty much the same now.

Physically: After years of smoking marijuana, I have noticed a lot of changes over the years. You lose the “munchies” pretty fast and eventually feel a normal amount of hunger, although when you quit smoking for any reason, you completely lose your appetite for awhile. It helps greatly to relax my body, and does not take away the pain per say, but does help to shift your focus away from it, like it goes more into the background of your mind. I still hurt a lot, even with this pain release, but it’s much easier to tolerate, and isn’t really a focus for me anymore. It is much harder to dream though, and that is the biggest downside for me. I still get very clear dreams, just not as often as when I didn’t smoke. I have to work harder to keep track of those things, but I keep a digital dream journal and make notes of any important things.

Mentally: When I was in my 20s, my thoughts were racing all the time. I was thinking about 800 things at once and was driving myself crazy with anxiety. Weed for me, calmed the storm of those rampant thoughts and helped me change my focus. If anything, it changed the way I perceived my reality. The first time I ever truly felt and experienced music as the timeless essence it is, was while smoking weed. I could feel it transcend time (I also further experienced this on psilocybin) and I made me realize that I was always processing everything with feelings, as I have never relied much on my mental body to begin with. I know that my emotional body is tied far deeper into my subconsciousness and tends to be far more accurate. I use my mental body as a tool to help me now, choosing to turn it on when it’s needed, and off when it is not. It has led to a far more organic existence of living this incarnation, living in one endlessly, forever shifting, moment in space/time.

Spiritually: Now this is where I have noticed the most experiences regarding my marijuana usage. To begin with, I feel like weed does not give you abilities that are not already there. If that is confusing, let me explain. If you are intuitive, it will enhance your intuition. If you are observant, it will make you more observant. If you are already lazy, it will make you lazier, etc. If you aren’t observant, it might make you slightly more observant, just by how it changes your perception, but in my experience with smoking weed with so many different kinds of people over the years, this is usually not the case. I have known a ton of people who very much need to smoke weed, as their mental/emotional/spiritual imbalances are too much for them to handle without it. I feel like I do not need it, but do find the physical pain to be a bit overwhelming without it. And this is all ramping up to explain that I feel I use marijuana to stay spiritually connected now.  It is easier to enhance all the sensations and feelings I have while in this state of mind, which in turn helps me make connections that I might not have been able to see with the physical and mental distractions that used to be around every corner. I am very observant; I tend to notice everything. This is not an exaggeration, it’s my gift as my true self, as well as is noticing patterns, being able to empathize, relate to, and help heal anyone in any walk of life. But when I am sober, I am distracted by the amount of stuff I notice, and weed helps me fine-tune my focus on one thing at a time. Instead of being a big open channel to all the craziness around me like in the past, I am able to focus on what resonates with great clarity now. This was something I was always able to do, it’s just the years of smoking weed helped me notice that I was able to do this. Weed helped me process through a lot of shadows, as I have spent endless hours sitting outside, contemplating life, healing pain, offering and asking for forgiveness.

For me, weed has been the greatest gift for my own personal growth. It’s cleared away the mental fog, the spiritual confusion and bodily pain. And with this, has come a great lucidity for the life I have designed for myself. Noticing patterns has helped me link so many seemingly random occurrences that have led to my awakening, and helped me to understand my purpose for being here.

I agree wholeheartedly that energies carry a signature. I was able to recognize my own energy signature more recently, therefore finding others who also carry that energy signature throughout my spiritual evolution, enhanced by my marijuana usage. I found two members of my soul family this way as well as discovered my social memory complex (who my wandering soul family is a part of) through the recognition of this energy signature, as it turns out all those in the same social memory complex have a familiar “feeling” that radiates through the heart chakra. Whenever I feel anything related to these energy signatures, my heart chakra pulses with energy, and I feel home.

Regarding negative entities, I can also recognize them quite quickly. As soon as they appear, I get this weird sensation almost like something is not right, that something feels like the opposite of what home feels like, is in the vicinity. I will get a weird thought pattern that does not feel like my own mind and instantly wish them love and light, and they disappear. Energies carry a signature which translates into feelings for me personally. I think this is how we process more in the higher densities, connecting to that energetic packet of information instead of an emotional body guiding you through feelings and sensations instead.

So for me, marijuana saved my life. I was overwhelmed by all the sensations, feelings, and thoughts I was trying to sort though in my younger years, and was not in a position to process these without the mental release I got from weed. I was able to evolve further on my spiritual journey by finding a way to calm the stormy seas of my mind, so I could use my gifts that were hidden underneath all the chaos. 

I have a lot of experience with this, so if you have any further questions, feel free to ask. Love & Light to you on your journey forward.