Testimonial: Marijuana Addiction

I have enjoyed and suffered two types of narcotic addiction. The first to snuff and the second with marijuana.

For nearly six years smoked marijuana. Sporadically and usually after the first. What I liked was the sense of "meaning and relevance" that seemed to charge all things under their effects, and I realized that I could not get unless minimum experience. So although it sounds paradoxical, I was addicted to marijuana addiction automoderada. With no snuff. On the contrary, ever smoked more.

For nearly seven years smoked a pack daily average of Benson & Hedges menthol. I started with one or two cigars a day and finally got up to smoke a pack and a half, or about 30. I was quite nervous when he did not pack a new book before I was finished the other and always had to hold estarme that I was not enough money in my wallet to overcome addiction and angered me greatly when prices went up pack . This was the only thing that troubled me with respect to snuff, well too bad smell in my clothes and my hair. Everything else was in the delightful and pleasurable act of smoking marijuana as both snuff and would have continued to do so if I have submitted both powerful enough motivation to quit and had not implemented the "chip" that drugs can stop one day to another as if nothing (see more in the sections on "personal experience" in the pages of snuff and marijuana).

My father smoked in moderation (the Raleigh) when I was a child and one day the cardiologist told him to quit smoking and he did, from one day to another, without more. And never smoke again. In no time I saw him suffer or complain, just leave it as if I saw anything, no dramas, so I thank him, because God allowed me to birth in the family I was born, I was not raised with the idea that drugs is a prison, or torment, or something whose removal causes pain is unbearable, there are repeated and it is virtually impossible to leave. They never had fear of drugs because we always thought that those who have power over them and not vice versa. That's what my dad taught me. I think my mom has never used any psychoactive than morphine and anesthesia for an operation and the inescapable theobromine, caffeine and sugar. So I never had any pattern of addiction to observe and inheritance.

In fact there was a time in which, for the pure projection, not believed in the existence of addiction and thought it was a myth to keep the drugs under prohibition. At that time also had a very low to ex-recovered addicts "who spoke publicly of his suffering trying to persuade others not to try drugs. I thought that was dedicated to spreading fear and false beliefs to others. Unfortunately it was not yet able to perceive the nobility of his intention and that it could be positive for others in similar circumstances that these people dared to talk about their experiences.

However, I had the good fortune to move along with my research on the psychoactive and when I started to interview different people, I realized that there were many realities coexist with my limited beliefs of departure. Found in the fascinating and complex subject of drugs are so many worlds and beliefs can be sustained on this and most are based on fears of one kind or another. And this is particularly reflected in the theme of addictions and the various approaches to address these, as shown in the contents of this page.

My perspective on addiction has widened so much that now I feel that goes beyond the concept of greater consensus that defines it as a dependency to the physical and / or psychological cause the consumption of a psychoactive.

Thanks to my addiction to the effects of marijuana, finally realized that any dependence is merely a symptom that reveals a very intense vacuum that makes us disconnect from our Spirit.

There is a phrase from a song by Marilyn Manson in my opinion has been able to capture the true origin of the addiction and put it bluntly: "There's a hole in our souls that we fill with dope and we're fine feling" [There is a hole in our souls filled with drugs and we feel good].

This "hole in our souls," is the feeling of experiencing such a vacuum or more literally, a "hole in our souls." A hole that not only try to fill some kind of psychoactive use, but any of the choices that our societies have invented for this purpose throughout the ages.

And this "hole" is filled with the w of the "Whole", which means the All. Revealing a paradox of the English language. Everything is on the Tao, Unity, the Source, the Divine, the Great Spirit from which all came and to which we all return.

In this sense we are all seekers of something to fill the void of the disconnection. The difference is that we have consciously made that search and others not yet. I think that those who are stronger, or at least more obviously, that hole in the soul, are the biggest candidates for addiction.

For me, an addict is a browser that is not yet fully aware of your search or if it is not yet clearly envisioned his way. I think the intensity of an addiction is directly proportional to the intensity of emptiness and an inability to fill that experience.

Move the source of our happiness to an external factor, be it a person, thing, activity or psychoactive, invariably generates a dependence on this factor and a loss of power that deepens the pit of the soul. Anyone who has suffered an addiction confident that there is something external that has the ability to disappear, mimimizar or forget, even momentarily, the unease generated by the vacuum that has given him the power to do something happy. That's why I was recovering from an addiction, recovering his power.

Recovering from addiction is a heroic act that anyone can achieve. In this sense an addiction becomes a very big opportunity that we offer our souls to identify the true source of the vacuum and take the path back to the unit. The path is different for everyone, but it is one and the same is the famous "Know thyself" inscribed on the walls of the Temple of Delphi.

Certainly the second recorded message in this temple of initiation was "Nothing in excess" ...

Those who choose the source of psychoactive and addictive, like those used specifically as a visionary type of growth in the spiritual path, consciously or intuitively, they know they need and want a quick remedy. The soul of a psiconauta requires a fast track. And we all know that roads are dangerous. But they have the attraction of being quick and effective when one managed to avoid the dangers. Which is not impossible as a psychoactive drug or any other drug, is both remedy and poison. The difference lies in the purpose, manner and circumstances in which they are employed, which is why treatments with ayahuasca, for example, offer very good results for treating addictions.

Dathlefsen and Dahlke, reminds us: "All drug addicts looking for something, but stopped the search too soon, in line with a substitute. The search should not end but with the discovery." (12)

They say that Jesus said: "He who seeks not stop searching until you find and be found when touched and when touched will admire and reign over everything."

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