Drugs make it all better, as they said in Trainspotting: “putting up with jobs money and other people and all that shiite, that doen nae matter when yeh hav a true and sincere smack habit.” (Quote is approximate.) Or as a poster I once saw said: “Drugs: Because Reality Needs Photoshop Filters”.
The fact is, humans need to get high. It’s true! The spirit of man, when it is really unhappy (as is the case with this crappy world we are all suffering in right now) needs to get high to feel better; and really happy people want to get high to celebrate.
The problem comes with ‘synthetic highs’. Frankly, drugs and chemically-induced highs don’t cut it. They aren’t enough. If they were enough, everyone would be on drugs and perfectly happy to remain so. But after the first few hits, when you “catch the rainbow” as a friend of mine said, you can’t quite ever attain that magnificent perfect state of spiritual glory again. And after you’ve gone a ways down the road to being well and truly addicted, the sadness kicks in of realizing that you will NEVER catch it.
So people switch from drug to drug, trying to catch that rainbow, catching maybe a glimpse of it here and there. This doesn’t just apply to hard drugs either; it applies to legal anti-depressants, marijuana, and even alcohol. All of them have a ‘high’ that their adherents keep trying to catch; every time they get high or drunk, they are going for that “perfect drunk” where it’s like the first time again and again.
But where does humanity get this need? Did God really make us like this?
Yes, but because we are completely ignorant of the way the human being works, we are not doing it the way God made us to do it. That is why chemical drugs are not enough… we need more. We are doing it WRONG.
First, if you haven’t already, read the article: “Spirit, Soul, Body”, then come back and read the rest of this.
Now, understanding that the human has a spirit, a soul, and a body and that there is a spiritual world to interact with, it seems strange that we walk along through life never using our spirit at all. We usually never see into the spiritual world. Little children do more than adults, because children haven’t trained their brains not to see certain things.
It is a fact, and I don’t remember the name of the researcher and his institute at the moment (I learned this in psychology class in college and God only knows where my class notes went), but a good study showed a few years back that the human brain is actually capable of learning not to see things. When trained not to see, for example, a blue ball; a man could walk into a room and there was no way for him to actually visually lay hold of the blue ball placed into the room. His eyes could look right at it, but his brain would not be picking up anything.
This is because the eyes don’t actually see. What they do is gather in formation and send it to the brain, where the soul then sorts the information and generates a picture. We actually are filling in gaps in our vision all the time, using this natural computer-generated effect to make our vision (which is actually a lot spottier and less accurate than we think it is) more complete. A person with an actual hole in his rods and cones can, by retraining his brain, fill that hole in so that he visually sees no hole at all.
A child hasn’t learned to do this yet, so they see a lot of things that adults cannot see. How many times have you seen a face, a strange light, a full-bodied figure out of the corner of your vision and instantly dismissed it as ‘imagination’ without even thinking about it? More than you would like to admit. Probably you aren’t even aware that you’re doing it. It takes a little concentration and a lot of patience, but if you start really paying attention to what your eyes are seeing, instead of just waving everything off as ‘imagination’, you might be really surprised by what is actually registering.
We can see things that look physical to us because we have a spirit that can see and interact with the spiritual world. Our soul is a filter that usually blanks out these spiritual visions, because we don’t want to see them.
But the brain can be turned off. This is exactly what happens when we get high and get really drunk. Our physical brain goes into emergency shut-down mode, and our soul is overloaded (mind, will, emotions) so that it, too, shuts down temporarily. Because we have overtaxed our system with poisons, our spirit takes sole control of our entire humanity.
How many times do drunks get emotionally out of control? How many times do they make stupid decisions they never would have made if they were sober? How many times does their logic break down, and they do things that make no sense? This is because they have “bombed” their soul (to use a computer term) in order to feel the spiritual world for just a moment.
The spirit cannot feel tired; it does not notice the passage of time. It can easily block out and often will not notice certain signals, like pain or sickness. In a spiritual state, a person feels joyful and alive. Artistic abilities are heightened, because art is a spiritual ability. Also too, inspiration is spiritual. They see things in a spiritual light, startling revelations will come from the smallest and most insignificant objects; a single flower petal can put a spiritually high person into raptures.
It is actually entering the spiritual state itself, not the drugs, which generate the “high” that we are all so needful of. But continually getting high, and taxing the resources of the spirit again and again, takes a toll; that is why the ‘rainbow’ becomes harder and harder to reach. The spirit is just getting plain tired.
Forcing the human being into a spiritual state by removing the functioning of the body and the soul, however, is not only dangerous but induces an inferior high that is easily sabotaged. The spirit is running on low power anyway, and even a small evil encounter can hijack a weak spirit and make their life hell. Instead, we are supposed to be entering a spiritual state by upping the amperage of our spirit to such high levels that it literally overwhelms the soul and the body, leaving their functions intact.
This is where God comes in. God is the source of all spiritual power. We are not. Our spirits have to draw power from another spiritual source; which is why those who enter a ‘false’ spiritual state through drugs or other chemicals often latch onto very dark and ugly spiritual energy, because they are the trash that is nearby. Those man-eating spiders you saw? Yah, those were real. They just weren’t physical, they were in the spiritual dimension, but they were real. And they aren’t nice, so be smart and stop taking drugs.
God on the other hand, on request, will pump the spirit of a person so full of energy that they will be bursting at the seams. They can fly into a spiritual high at any moment, and because the soul is still intact and is not shut off, they can also still reason, feel emotions properly, and make controlled decisions of the will.
The spiritual high from God is going to be a lot more powerful, a lot ‘higher’, and you can catch the rainbow every single time. In fact, each time you get high the spirit will grow stronger and more able to hold larger amounts of spiritual energy, so each high is better than the last.
And God, unlike drugs, is free. I highly recommend God over crystal meth. He’s more fun.
The reason I included “Insanity” in the title of the article is because insanity is also a kind of high. Except this time the person is using their spirit to override their soul and body by faith, without the use of chemicals. They believe they can see or hear something, so they dampen their soul and body down to the point where they can see and hear more clearly in the spirit realm. This is kind of like turning down the radio, so you can hear a distant noise outside more clearly.
What they see and hear, however, is usually not worth meddling with. They get really excited that it’s real… they really can see and hear it… sure, that’s fine. But what are the benefits of being able to see and hear talking frogs with fangs? Really?
Or what is the benefit of allowing another spiritual being to enter one’s body, because it says it is the departed spirit of Charlemagne or something? (When, in fact, human spirits do NOT remain on earth after death: see my post “Ghosts” for more on that topic.)
Being able to see and hear the spiritual world by belief alone shows that a person has a great faith-muscle, but that is all. Unless one is seeing and hearing God, and His spiritual servants, there is really no point. All the spiritual creatures that are exiled to this earth and do not follow God are all crazy, nasty, and dirty, and we as human beings really don’t want them. They aren’t worth our time, unless you really LIKE kissing cockroaches…
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