I'm not sure I fully understand what you are saying, but the people I know who have an addiction are either unhappy with who they are or their circumstances (which they feel helpless of change) or they just like experimenting.
In the former, if it worked for a little while to make them feel better about themselves or oblivious to the unhappiness or distress they experience, then it becomes a way out or an escape mechanism. I'm old enough to remember when recreational drugs were not so readily available and people dealt with their demons. Oh, yeah, but there was alcohol wasn't there. Anyway, the availability and social stigma that used to be attached make it much more acceptable and an excellent excuse not to fight the good fight to stay level. And even as I speak I see it destroying friends, neighbors and relatives. Have you ever noticed how sickly these folks are? As their general health declines from chemicals and malnutrition, the worse they feel. So, to feel better they go for "the stuff". This is a broad sweeping statement, but I think that if people would take better care of their bodies they would feel better and the gray matter would perform better! Would be wonderful to have a rapid cure for addicts, their lives are not good even with the drugs giving them a reprieve from life! I think I must sound like a sanctimonious witch, but I'm not really. Just saddened by what I see! ----- Original Message ----- From: Ode Coyote <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 6:31 AM Subject: Re: CS>Re: Glad cow syndrome > > Many of the early LSD research subjects reported being cured of life long > addicitions, specifically, alchololism. The psycehdelics are all a bit > different, but one trait they share is to present an opportunity to "reset > the computer". The computer can run the previous program as well. I > suppose it has something to do with scrambling personal reality, then pick > a reality..any reality till you find one that does what you want it to. > Ibogain apparently has some additional physiological advantages. > Underneath all the guilt projected upon addiction, addicts 'want' to be > addicted because it serves a purpose in whatever life game they are > playing. It's perfect for a victim game with a poor poor me script. Those > who choose to release addiction during Ibogain treatment often relapse if > dumped back into their previous environment. > BTW, It is absolutely impossible to become physically addicted to LSD. > Same for any other psychelic I've encountered. > It's only a tool. Results depend on intent. New intents can come up when > the program gets scrambled. No one forces anyone to think anything. > Anything can be re-thought. > One of the things that can make using psychedelics scary is having > everything you thought to be true, blasted to smithereens. They will make > you face yourself with nowhere to run. Some people freak when the mirror > smacks them in the face...and the face melts right through it becoming the > mask that it is, dripping with lies told to self. > The main danger, socially speaking, is that seekers sometimes discover the > lies of society along with their own lies and may decide to heal their > environment along with themselves...but don't really know how to do > something that few ever try to do. So, they become experimental. Can't > have that! > > [An answer might be found that way...in a place where no questions are > allowed.] > > The common factor with the CS experimenter? > When nothing works, trying anything else might do better. > What is "known" to be true cannot be "actually" true if it doesn't yield > the desired results when implemented. > Tradition suffers its own truth be it traditional meds or traditional > social structures such as religions. > > If it don't work, do it harder, preferably to some one else. > Ken > > At 12:04 PM 9/5/02 -0500, you wrote: > >Maybe I'm narrow minded, but isn't this like what one would look for that > >uses LSD? > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: James Osbourne, Holmes <[email protected]> > >To: <[email protected]> > >Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 9:37 PM > >Subject: RE: CS>Re: Glad cow syndrome > > > > > >> That stuff is the most potent shamanistic assist I have experienced. > >> Definitely not a party drug. > >> > >> James-Osbourne: Holmes > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 4:39 PM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: CS>Re: Glad cow syndrome > >> > >> > >> Marshall writes: > >> > >> > ibogaine...http://www.ibogaine.co.uk/ It is illegal to > >> > possess in the US. > >> > > >> For something that isn't...yet: > >> http://www.sagewisdom.org/index.html > >> jr > >> > >> > >> -- > >> The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > >> > >> Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > >> > >> To post, address your message to: [email protected] > >> > >> Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > >> > >> List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >
