Posted by helpme on July 4, 2006, at 18:42:32
In reply to Re: Marijuana+Yoga+Meditation+Bob Marley, posted by bluenose on June 23, 2006, at 14:32:46
Hate to tell you, but I used to LOVE pot. For years, the best, on the west coast. The Humboldt County, the Maui Wowie, the British Columbia stuff. Then I moved to Chicago, and found bad batches full of scary as hell speed,formedehyde, and other truly weird things. Thinking I was going to die due to pounding and racing heart and buldging blood vessels visible on my head cured me. I was too scared to even go to an emergency room. A few other things helped cure me: I noticed that when I used to be a daily smoker out in the Humboldt Territory, I was getting dumber and dumber, lazier and lazier- and had no clue at the time. In fact, I thought I was brilliant, and wrote things down. When I re-read now, all I see is mostly retarded rambling. I still bump into people from that era from time to time now, and let me tell you, uncanny percentage of them I could call schizophrenic/histrionic/generally disfunctional now. Really messed up. Never did anything with their groovy lives, and now they are around 45 and time's movin' on. "Oh I always wish I..." "Oh I should have..."
Also- you were not meditating; you were "spacing out". Meditation is about clarity. Check out Insight Meditation (google for their website), Prairie Sanga (google), Spirit Rock, others, and see what it's really about. You can't be truely present with the present moment and see things how they really are while you drift off into your own head.
I never thought I'd find myself saying these things, but live and learn.
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