Our consciousness is built on the foundation of electric and chemical signals in the brain, which dance together to cause our subjective awareness to emerge. These internal drugs regulate all of our most precious and painful experiences.
They allow us to feel a deep sense of connection and empathy with our closest friends, as well as a stinging sense betrayal toward a cheating lover, or the melancholic longing of a deceased loved one.
Everything from saudade to wonderment, these endogenous drugs provide us with the instantaneous glow of the rapturous now.
Neurologically, They control the speed of impulses in the brain. They interact with other drug-like compounds in our bodies, which mediate everything from sexual arousal to social behavior. For instance, serotonin, a common neurotransmitter, regulates mood, hunger, and our sleep-wake cycles.
Dozens more of these compounds are constantly in flux to bring about everything we perceive as existence.
Serotonin, Psilocybin, and DMT—the Compounds of Experience
Strangely, governments ban drugs that alter our experience and grant us visions; but what they ban by association are the drugs of experience in our brains. When government says a psychedelic like psilocybin (the hallucinogenic chemical in magic mushrooms) is illegal, what they are saying is that serotonin is illegal, because psilocybin is nearly identical to it.
Government's have also banned DMT—or dimethyltryptamine.
This is an even more of a grievance against life. DMT is another compound that is closely related to serotonin, and it is also a powerful psychedelic compound. If a chemist moves mere atoms around, he could turn serotonin into DMT. And more fascinatingly, DMT is already naturally occurring in most plant and animal life.
It has been speculated that it occurs in humans as well via the pineal gland. If this is the case, governments have banned chemicals that currently exist in the body...making life illegal at all times.
The War on Drugs is a War on Consciousness
The war on drugs, then, is essentially a war on consciousness, a war on life, and an attack on cognitive liberty. It is an assault on the very firmament of our existence.
These laws go against the ascendancy of our own nature. They make little sense. How insane does a species have to be to claim that its own nature is immoral and illegal? It suggests that humans should hate themselves since they are naturally evil, based on the dictates of biochemistry and evolution.
No wonder the bible portrays humanity as having fallen from a state of grace. Our consciousness is essentially based on a perpetual psychedelic experience. And ironically, this is unacceptable to most religious leaders and government drug warriors.
If we took government's and society's anti-drug mentality to its conclusion, consciousness and subjectivity of the individual would be banned, since serotonin partially activates one of the most amazing and precious experiences: life.
What should we do to reclaim our right to consciousness?
“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong."~Terrence McKenna
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