when you think of 30,000 year old cave paintings, what comes to mind? visits from aliens? or perhaps altered states of consciousness that were later recorded?
for 6 million years, since we've had our last common ancestor with the chimpanzees, we were an extremely boring race. millions of years of repetitive, dull, robotic behavior. fully, anatomically modern humans come about 195,000 years ago but the behavior doesn't change. no spirituality, no creativity, no symbolism. after 40,000 years ago, its like a light switches on in the human brain all around the world. incredible, complicated, disturbing art comes about. other things that have never been done before come about like ceremonial burying of the dead and leaving goods, which hint at a belief in the afterlife or spirits, hunting techniques get better and were set on the road to the modern world.
in all of these cave paintings, thousands of years and miles apart, they depict the same "spirits" or "beings" or "ideas" being presented. shamans depict these spiritual teachers the same as modern humans depict aliens and abductions as teachers of new ideas and healing powers. could it be that the huge leap forward was not the result of the evolved, problem solving state of consciousness that appeared suitable for the modern world, but from the cultivation of altered states of consciousnesses. thats when we started to think symbolically, its like we received a teaching that changed our direction dramatically.
numerous discoveries have been made by people from all walks of life in an altered state of consciousness that has benefited the world tremendously. (crick, tesla, jobs, etc..)
it seems were not dealing with simple "brain candy'" but with transformative experiences, and what they are the opposite from and require us to break away from is the ruthless dominance of the problem solving state of consciousness dominated by society today. our escape from the monotonous waking life is vapid sensationalist media, hideous reality television or alcohol. you have to ask yourself what constant exposure to these things daily are doing to our state of mind?
it might be cutting us off from higher realms that want to make contact with us. there is no guarantee that the human race will be here in the future, as we are headed down a very destructive path chasing monetary goals and materialistic futures.
we live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honoured scared plants to explore our own consciousness. yet, surely the exploration and expansion of the miracle of our consciousness is the essence of what it is to be human?
by demonizing and persecuting altered states of consciousness today we may be denying ourselves the next vital step in our own evolution, just as happened to our ancestors 40,000 years ago in those caves.
why does any government have the right to tell an adult what they may or may not experience in our own heads? so many of us unthinkingly buy into the fundamental philosophy behind the war on drugs, but the fundamental philosophy of the war on drugs is that actually the state has a complete right, not only to enter your home, but to enter your own head and to tell you what you may or may not experience. how can we possibly talk about a free society if we are not even sovereign over our own consciousness? quite frankly were not sovereign over anything. to talk about liberty, freedom and democracy is meaningless. and to impose our form of liberty on other countries around the world? when you send people to prison for tens of years for exploring their own consciousness through the use of ancient and sacred plants, there is something terribly wrong here.
we have to reestablish contact with spirit. western society has severed its connection with spirit and it has become a profound sickness in our society.
we have a choice. we can choose to perpetuate monopolistic control over how we eat and think and act or we can stand up for ourselves and others and for our personal freedoms and change how the world thinks and acts.
explore your consciousness a little. open your mind, and stop being so derisive towards people who may experiment with their bodies/minds. it may have a profound effect on your lifestyle. i know it did, mine.
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