REAL ANSWERS TO COMMON QUESTIONS
The Wine Valley Vibe: That Friday Feeling
Question: Do you believe in God?
Answer: How are you defining God (an oft divisive word with different meanings to the world’s religions and cultures)?
Question: Do you have a faith?
I’m an Omnist, believing in religious pluralism i.e., there is some truth (and overlap) in all religions, toss in theosophy: open-minded inquiry into religion, philosophy, science and the arts for learning wisdom of the ages.
The traditional religions from the East—Tao, Hinduism and Buddhism (the latter is actually a philosophy)—and the West—Christianity, Judaism, Islam) express the same underlying truth: The spirit of “God” (Infinite Spirit) is within us all. (In fact, their mystical factions— Christian mystics, Kabbalah and Sufism—have more in common with one another than their parent religions.)
Infinite Spirit is energy, encompassing every vibrating molecule in every being; it is not localized or timed but is always and everywhere.
The energy in each of us—all of us—is a manifestation of the cosmos.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, Don’t look for yourself outside of yourself.
Walt Whitman, a true mystic, put it another way: “I am divine and make holy whatever I touch.” In other words, you don’t need a middleman to Infinite Spirit (my Godly term of choice) because you already have a direct line to the divine within you, if you awaken to it.
“Nirvana,” wrote Alan Watts, “is where you are, provided you don’t object to it.”
Or as Donovan sang in Season of Farewell: “Finally, I realize, I’m to be my own surprise.”
This fits with what Jesus of Nazareth strove to impart upon his disciples: “YOU are the spirit of God.”
But don’t cling to it. Alan Watts wrote, “Faith is not clinging but letting go.”
Question: What is the world coming to?
Answer: Over-population and widespread pollution (think plastics), malignant metastasizing cancers that, if left unchecked, will kill the organism on which it resides.
Question: Where does it all end?
These possibilities: One, an asteroid strikes the planet and creates a new ice age. Two, a super volcano erupts and does the same. Three, a nuclear strike (willful or accidental) leads to a series of nuclear strikes rendering the planet uninhabitable.
I used to think lacing Earth’s drinking water with lithia salts is the path to world peace. But now I believe the answer is entheogens for everyone (especially world leaders) for rediscovering ancient spiritualism.
Question: What’s the secret to it all?
Answer: History’s best kept secret: Every every mystical vision in history starting with those who attended “The Mysteries” of Eleusis (the world’s first spiritual capital) in ancient Greece was likely the result of entheogens i.e., mind-manifesting hallucinogens such as magic mushrooms, ayahuasca or ergot (a fungus associated with rye bread and grain from which LSD is synthesized).
The sacramental beverage at Eleusis (attended by Plato and Sophocles) was laced with Claviceps (the fungus ergot).
The first Holy Communion at The Last Supper was wine and bread (the “blood and body” of Jesus) infused with psychoactive ingredients (most likely fly agaric mushrooms). This was how Jesus opened the eyes of his disciples and they became reborn through mystical visions. When Jesus said, “I am here to give sight to the blind,” it was a metaphor for opening one’s mind.
When St. Paul was just plain Saul prosecuting followers of Jesus he wittingly or unwittingly OD’d on an entheogen to the point that he went blind for three days and believed he experienced a vision from God.
Without such visions the Christian religion would not have begun.
One cannot “learn” about God/infinite spirit. One must “experience” God/infinite spirit through visions.
When Aldous Huxley coined the phrase “doors of perception,” he meant that visionary perception is not opened by a fancy building, priests or books but by entheogens for recognizing God/infinite spirit within ourselves.
Humphrey Osmond reflected this in a rhyme he wrote to Huxley with a rhyme: To fathom hell or go angelic—just take a pinch of psychedelic.
Entheogens are usually the common denominator of all visionaries, of their communion with God/infinite spirit and the birth of all religions and modern cults.
Paleo Christians kept communion between Man and God flourishing for the first four centuries A.D. until around 1,650 years ago when the Roman Catholic Church declared the first war on drugs.
The Establishment (organized religion in cahoots with government) has striven for 16 centuries to keep this link a secret by denouncing such rites as witchcraft and witches. (Women—witches—oversaw apothecaries and mixing/generating kykeons.)
The Establishment did so to consolidate its power over people, disallowing the average person from experiencing mystical visions. Very many people, especially women (mothers and daughters, passing down kykeon recipes), were tortured and brutally executed by the powers that be (e.g., The Inquisition) as a means of covering up the truth about the Eucharist, seeking to eliminate this magic portal and, thus, preventing direct connection between Man and God.