השגת ?awakened normality?, והתפתחות רוחנית מבלי שימוש בסמים. מתאר את עירור הקונדליני.
It requires no psychedelics to experience the silent wonderment of ?awakened normality? that may be experienced as a result of the Six Foundations. Once the Kundalini is awakened, the non-causal ecstasy, non-causal peace, and non-causal contentment of life which is our heritage is available regularly. The effect does not ?wear-out;? There is no ?trip? to come down from, but rather the non-causal joy of life itself, and there are no side effects. Awakened normality is our natural state. It does not depend on anything outside of us or anything we need to ingest. Freedom is independent of any external conditions. All we need is to be in the silence that allows us to transcend the limitations of the mind and brain. Drugs confine us to the chemistry of the brain and emotions and therefore limit us in this ultimate sense. The awakened life is about being exquisitely present in this world.
This is the true miracle. It is not the limited phenomenological world of drugs which is the real wow of life, as one dances in the Divine Presence and the whole world becomes alive and shares its sacred walk with you. Sai Baba, a great avadoot and God-conscious being, was so omnipresent that it took an average of one hour to walk fifty yards. Do we really need to travel to to take some drugs to feel alive? Does this really have anything to do with liberation? The point the author is raising is not that drugs, synthetic or organic, are dangerous or not, a high risk verse benefit ratio or not, or whether they are a valid path or not ? but rather ? where the path leads?
For those who indeed have benefited from them as a door opener, are they a path that leads to full liberation or perhaps only to the doorway? Drugs, like the ego of the mind-body complex which they stimulate, must be let go of to go all the way to the Nothing. Those who dance in the I Am That ? require no props. When introduced to other ways of building spiritual awareness such as meditation and yoga, often the drug usage significantly diminishes because they have found more sustaining and less potentially toxic ways. As people mature spiritually and have an increasing experience of the non-causal contentment, peace and joy of sattvic life, drugs as a path gradually stop being considered as a means to evolve spiritually. Once one has the Kundalini awakened, tastes the nectar of sattvic life and has established a spiritual foundation, drug use simply looks pale. The vast majority of eastern and western recognized Self-realized beings do not recommend drugs as part of a deep spiritual path to liberation. Mostly these drugs create the phenomenology of astral plane experiences and insights, which is not the goal of liberation.
Once the Kundalini is awakened, the author strongly recommends one does not do any drugs or harsh yoga practices that force the Kundalini and interferes with this delicate process that has been activated. Simply supporting the Kundalini unfolding with the Six Foundations is enough. The sacred feminine has a Divine unfolding pattern of its own that is best to be respected and surrendered to. It is a feminine pattern of surrender rather than a masculine path of fitting into a pre-set form or forcing with techniques or drugs. The way of Kundalini is gentle and peaceful and it knows how to help one through blocks in its own unique unfoldment. The main people who have had difficulty with Kundalini have been those who have tried to force the unfolding with drugs, excessive pranayama, or other extreme practices or pre-existing mental disturbances. Aside from this, the author has not seen hardly anyone have difficulty if they maintain their foundations of spiritual practice.
The issue of drugs and self-realization is a topic that serious seekers of spiritual liberation need to honestly address.