Takes on Spirituality?

[Mrs.oejack9]

Cannabis and spiritual experience have gone hand in hand for thousands of years, and I was wondering....

What is your spiritual/religious views? I'm not looking to start a debate about what path is valid or better than another, but more just a dialogue about what you believe and has cannabis helped you open your mind to different concepts that perhaps you would not have been open to otherwise?

Personally, I am agnostic; I believe that it's equiprobable that God doesn't exist and that he does exist. I keep an open mind. I used to be Christian once upon a time, but my faith died a while back, and cannabis definitely played a role in that for me; the church would say drugs are bad, and I found that not all of them were; so that led me to believe that maybe the church had ulterior motives for discouraging people from exploring different things, and asking questions.

I have also learned to read tarot cards and believe in ghosts/interdimensionals/aliens....we can't be the only ones in this great big universe, right??

Thoughts? Insights?

(Please no fightin' guys, I really just want to open a dialogue, not a debate.)

 

[Hubbleman]

Well, like i said in another thread , theres a part of your brain that is designed to go hand in hand with cannabis

Its called neurosomatics

 

[Hubbleman]

I had the pleasure of smoking weed with that brain circuit online and i gotta tell ya it was the most mystical feeling i ever had

 

[Hubbleman]

Anyone remember what happened to Peace of my Heart? She was very spiritual on these forums

 

[Hubbleman]

Also i was pretty disappointed nothing happened on dec 21st last year (i thought theres going to be a shift)

 

[Mrs.oejack9]

Also i was pretty disappointed nothing happened on dec 21st last year (i thought theres going to be a shift)

A lot of people were excited about the 21st, but all it really was was just the end of one Mayan calendar and the beginning of another.



I guess there aren't many folks into the whole spiritual thing...or too buzzed to chit chat about it....

 

[resinryder]

Really can't have this discussion here. Once someone says they believe in God, here come the naysayers to tell them how stupid, simple minded, and how much of an idiot they are.

 

[ghostmade]

pure and simple GOD put this herb we call cannabis here for a reason.its up to you what you make out of it.ive had soooooooooooooo many ideas while high and received the word, I've done it ''sober'' as well. life is what you make it .food is what we consume(air food water and thoughts)

 

[thaicat]

Cannabis and spiritual experience have gone hand in hand for thousands of years, and I was wondering....

What is your spiritual/religious views? I'm not looking to start a debate about what path is valid or better than another, but more just a dialogue about what you believe and has cannabis helped you open your mind to different concepts that perhaps you would not have been open to otherwise?

Personally, I am agnostic; I believe that it's equiprobable that God doesn't exist and that he does exist. I keep an open mind. I used to be Christian once upon a time, but my faith died a while back, and cannabis definitely played a role in that for me; the church would say drugs are bad, and I found that not all of them were; so that led me to believe that maybe the church had ulterior motives for discouraging people from exploring different things, and asking questions.

I have also learned to read tarot cards and believe in ghosts/interdimensionals/aliens....we can't be the only ones in this great big universe, right??

Thoughts? Insights?

(Please no fightin' guys, I really just want to open a dialogue, not a debate.)

I have no ''valid'' spirituality. I wake up every morning and try to be the best person I can be. Sometimes that notion is completely disregarded and I'm a dick. Most times I just try to treat others/conduct myself as I'd like others to be.

I don't consider myself an Atheist but I don't really believe in a ''God.'' I don't need a God to tell me how to treat others and how to conduct myself.

Wake up and be the best person you can be. That's my philosophy...

 

[HUGE]

See allan watts. A good place to start is morals of game theoryand his book. Titled the book.

 

[Stoner4Life]

I have no ''valid'' spirituality. I wake up every morning and try to be the best person I can be. Sometimes that notion is completely disregarded and I'm a dick. Most times I just try to treat others/conduct myself as I'd like others to be.

I don't consider myself an Atheist but I don't really believe in a ''God.'' I don't need a God to tell me how to treat others and how to conduct myself.

Wake up and be the best person you can be. That's my philosophy...

amen

 

[MIway]

Really can't have this discussion here. Once someone says they believe in God, here come the naysayers to tell them how stupid, simple minded, and how much of an idiot they are.

Hehehe... I might be in that camp, lol. Compared to the past, it seems a more responsible path to move away from organized religion and our misconceptions regarding. tend to c religion as a negative force in human history, though the inception and need are most certainly understandable... We want to understand that which we experience, and that includes a sense of purpose. Simple enough, yet so destructive for all yhe varying examples we can tie to it. It srems the responsible thing is to move away from the past models... Even if we punt on the idea of some supreme deity or organizing force.

it is kinda interesting to ponder where the information that organizes everything we see originates. We seem to live in a chaotic system yet have a great deal of organization and pattern within... Where does the information for all of that come? How/why do atoms organize as they do? Or subatomic particles? Which leads to all we see in the big world? Think this is the crux of intelligent design...? Im a layperson, no doubt

 

[groady-ho]

I have no ''valid'' spirituality. I wake up every morning and try to be the best person I can be. Sometimes that notion is completely disregarded and I'm a dick. Most times I just try to treat others/conduct myself as I'd like others to be.

I don't consider myself an Atheist but I don't really believe in a ''God.'' I don't need a God to tell me how to treat others and how to conduct myself.

Wake up and be the best person you can be. That's my philosophy...

bout sums up my take--with a small exception, i believe in something, but i'm unsure of what it is--i used to believe in god wholeheartedly but as i've aged and seen the worst in people my faith is dwindling--

 

[HempKat]

the church would say drugs are bad, and I found that not all of them were; so that led me to believe that maybe the church had ulterior motives for discouraging people from exploring different things, and asking questions.

What I find interesting is that while religion may teach drugs are bad there is nothing I've ever heard quoted or have read myself from any "holy" book that specifically addresses drug use one way or another.

 

[Mrs.oejack9]

Really can't have this discussion here. Once someone says they believe in God, here come the naysayers to tell them how stupid, simple minded, and how much of an idiot they are.

, that made me laugh!! That's kinda sad, though...one thing about beliefs is that as long as it's not hurting me, other people are free to think what ever the hell they want...no skin off my nose. And until you observe something directly, it makes you look stupid to say it doesn't exist, ya know? Never understood why people do that......

pure and simple GOD put this herb we call cannabis here for a reason.its up to you what you make out of it.ive had soooooooooooooo many ideas while high and received the word, I've done it ''sober'' as well. life is what you make it .food is what we consume(air food water and thoughts)

Hey, nature is our store...we have cannabinoid receptors for a reason....

I have no ''valid'' spirituality. I wake up every morning and try to be the best person I can be. Sometimes that notion is completely disregarded and I'm a dick. Most times I just try to treat others/conduct myself as I'd like others to be.

I don't consider myself an Atheist but I don't really believe in a ''God.'' I don't need a God to tell me how to treat others and how to conduct myself.

Wake up and be the best person you can be. That's my philosophy...

You make a very valid point; you don't need religion to have a strong moral compass. My daughter doesn't even know what a church is; I have done that on purpose. I want her to be a clean slate, so that when she is an adult, she can make her own choice as to what type of spirituality she wants to espouse OR none at all, if that's what makes her happy. Totally agree with you, I like the way you think.

See allan watts. A good place to start is morals of game theoryand his book. Titled the book.

I have never heard of the guy, I will check him out.

Hehehe... I might be in that camp, lol. Compared to the past, it seems a more responsible path to move away from organized religion and our misconceptions regarding. tend to c religion as a negative force in human history, though the inception and need are most certainly understandable... We want to understand that which we experience, and that includes a sense of purpose. Simple enough, yet so destructive for all yhe varying examples we can tie to it. It srems the responsible thing is to move away from the past models... Even if we punt on the idea of some supreme deity or organizing force.

it is kinda interesting to ponder where the information that organizes everything we see originates. We seem to live in a chaotic system yet have a great deal of organization and pattern within... Where does the information for all of that come? How/why do atoms organize as they do? Or subatomic particles? Which leads to all we see in the big world? Think this is the crux of intelligent design...? Im a layperson, no doubt

One thing I think a lot of followers of organized religion forget is that they were all created by man and promoted by man. Any man can say he's received divine information, and then take that information and push it as religion. My father always told me that your spirituality (or lack of it) should be personal; not public. Don't do what another man tells you to do, do what you feel is right to do. I personally see some type of design in the way things work here, is it necessarily God? Could be...could be an advanced race of beings, too. Perhaps we'll know one day.

What I find interesting is that while religion may teach drugs are bad there is nothing I've ever heard quoted or have read myself from any "holy" book that specifically addresses drug use one way or another.

When I practiced Christianity, I read the bible from cover to cover a couple times...and there's rape, murder, incest...which are obvious, but I never read anywhere about drugs...they drank wine, lots of wine...but they never said anything about cannabis or others substances.

I asked a Christian friend of mine a while back what he thought about cannabis(he is very devout), he said it was a gateway drug...so I proceeded to send him article after article about it's medicinal properties. He had no clue...only what he'd learned in church.

 

[HUGE]

Allan watts is sometimes described as religion for athiests. Altjough he is much more than that.

 

[Mrs.oejack9]

bout sums up my take--with a small exception, i believe in something, but i'm unsure of what it is--i used to believe in god wholeheartedly but as i've aged and seen the worst in people my faith is dwindling--

It's hard to look at the world today and have faith in humanity....but just in the week or so I've been participating here, I'm really impressed with how open, honest and helpful people are...I like to believe for every douche bag out there there's 2 equally decent people...I could be wrong, but it keeps me going.

A light hearted look at some decent acts, might make ya smile....

http://thechive.com/2012/12/05/rest...e-random-act-of-kindness-at-a-time-15-photos/

 

[Mrs.oejack9]

Allan watts is sometimes described as religion for athiests. Altjough he is much more than that.

I was checking out some of his quotes....

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
Alan Watts

I like what I'm reading so far...

 

[SeedsOfFreedom]

I'd consider myself a skeptical agnostic. Thus far the closest I have been to God was from a handful of mushrooms!

 

[DarthFader1]

Cannabis and spiritual experience have gone hand in hand for thousands of years, and I was wondering....

What is your spiritual/religious views? I'm not looking to start a debate about what path is valid or better than another, but more just a dialogue about what you believe and has cannabis helped you open your mind to different concepts that perhaps you would not have been open to otherwise?

Personally, I am agnostic; I believe that it's equiprobable that God doesn't exist and that he does exist. I keep an open mind. I used to be Christian once upon a time, but my faith died a while back, and cannabis definitely played a role in that for me; the church would say drugs are bad, and I found that not all of them were; so that led me to believe that maybe the church had ulterior motives for discouraging people from exploring different things, and asking questions.

I have also learned to read tarot cards and believe in ghosts/interdimensionals/aliens....we can't be the only ones in this great big universe, right??

Thoughts? Insights?

(Please no fightin' guys, I really just want to open a dialogue, not a debate.)

I stopped taking you seriously after reading the tarot cards.

And also please take in this quote from the very first page of the bible..

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.