Being Human?!
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I suspect you will be surprised to see me posting back-to-back blogs! I suspect you are familiar with the concept of organizing activities into must do – should do – would like to do; with my schedule, blog posts fall into the would like to do category. I love to share when I can so today is another day that “I can”.
Today’s post is a short review of a book many will benefit from reading, particularly those with questions about ethnogens. Ethnogens are molecules (natural or synthesized) that induce what is often referred to as “God-states”. Some researchers refer to ethnogens as God-molecules. Today, there are many in the public sector who are very dogmatic with their opinions as to whether one can have a religious experience by way of the use of any substance. Sadly, such people have rarely, if ever, done any research into the use of ethnogens in religion; it doesn’t take long to find out that there is a long and clear trail of ethnogenic use in most of the world’s major religions. In fact, world famous expert on world religion, Huston Smith wrote a ground breaking paper titled, Do Drugs Have Religious Import. This paper was published in The Journal of Philosophy, Vol LXI, No. 18, September 17, 1964.
BEING HUMAN
Being Human, by Martin W. Ball, PH.D is an excellent little book that explores the use of ethnogens and God-states. As a licensed Medicine Man – Spirit Guide practicing Native healing, I’ve spent a significant amount of time and energy investigating the use of ethnogens as a means of psycho-physical healing. History is rife with explanations and experiences of their effective use, yet the drug companies have essentially stolen the healing powers of plants and programmed people to believe that drugs given by doctors are safe and effective, and that you are putting yourself in grave danger if you use any drug that isn’t considered “legal” or isn’t physician prescribed. Look at the news tonight to see if that idea is working!look all around you!
While I recommend this book by Martin Ball, there are some points of contention I’ll share briefly here:
1. On p.13, Ball states:! “Religions teach us that we have souls or spirits that give us life. This is fundamentally incorrect. Your life is God. You do not have a spirit or a soul in any way whatsoever. You are God in a body. Any idea of a soul or spirit is superfluous, unnecessary and ultimately incorrect. Each living being is God embodied directly from source.
This statement is self-contradictory. The last sentence here, “. Each living being is God embodied directly from source.” Suggests that each living being is embodied directly from source. The key word here is “source”. Used correctly, “GOD” means “ALL”. The truth, as I experience it, is that God is Sum and Source. If God is God, there can be none other, for God is the source of substance; substance being that which exists as measurable or “knowable AS something”. Yet, you can not have a “something” without it’s antagonist, “no-thing”. To get to any countable (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9!), you must come from no-thing. No-Thing is what I refer to as The Zero-Force.
Reduced to absolute essentials, God equates to only two Absolute Qualities:
1. The Absolutely Full, and
2. The Absolutely Empty.
When these two meet, vibration occurs. The name for the primordial vibration that is the source and sum of all manifest existence is Spirit. If it moves, it is Spirit!
Soul is the neutral point between that which is negative, and that which is positive. In the tai-chi symbol, soul would be represented as the line creating the apparent division of yin and yang; it is always in the place of neutral polarity. In my last post, I spoke about “Doing Nothing”, and that is how a soul works. It is like the axle on the front wheels of your car; it does nothing, but is essential for the wheel’s expression of rotation, and therefore, translocation. To understand why a soul is essential is to understand that without an axle, there could be no functional revolution (time & movement), which is the essential nature of evolution.
2. On p. 35, Ball states, “To put it bluntly, the kinds of energy being discussed in this guide have nothing to do with any concept of subtle energy and are not comparable to religious constructions of subtle energy in any way. Subtle energy is imaginary. Real energy is physiological.
This statement is again, self-negating. First of all, the essential nature of the word “religion” means, “reunion”, a coming together of the parts into a whole. Therefore, any use of an ethnogen, any form of spiritual or religious practice, or act of life that awakens one such that their actions become more congruent with regard to experiencing wholeness in life, are religious if the word is used correctly. Additionally, what is referred to as subtle energy is merely that which is not gross – measurable. As science evolves, more and more of what was once “subtle” is becoming measureable. Therefore, just as we once thought the world was flat, and that the earth was the center of the universe, we are now equipped with the science to validate subtle energy as “real energy”. Even a brief study of Quantum Physics proves that the entire universe is emergent of an inexhaustible well of!you guessed it, subtle energy.
For those of you interested in an excellent book with the science to show that subtle energies are real and well validated, I suggest that you study Cyndi Dayle’s The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy. This book as requisite reading for CHEK Level 4 and highly recommended for HLC3 students, so if you like, you can start getting ready now!
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