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Ferre
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 Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 1:28 pm Post subject: Changing Brains, Changing Values, Changing Laws |
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| Paul von Hartmann wrote: |
Dear friends,
The following article is relevant to changes which are happening in drug policy that are on a level hardly discussed in the CND, UN and by most drug reform groups. This is unfortunate because it weakens the synergistic effort that could be operating between science, economics, religion, and law as these dimensions of society are effected by people's use of psychoactive stimuli, and the social responses that result.
As the use of psychoactive substances is recognized to be a integral, historically legitimate, socially accepted, legally protected choice for advancing individual spiritual development, the minor statutes prohibiting cultivation and use of "sacred plants" are coming into conflict with our fundamental "self-evident" Natural right to freedom of worship. How ironic that the religious argument, typically imposed as an irrational moralistic dogma, may be the most effective and conclusive legal strategy for ending prohibition, when considered from a non-secular, human rights perspective.
Over the course of human history, and for most people in the world today, many if not most of the people who use drugs or herbs for religious purpose, use Cannabis. It is the safest, the most available and probably the most widely distributed cultural choice. Wheteher because it is the most available, the safest or because of its other practical uses, Cannabis has been the primary "herb bearing seed" on Earth, for thousands of years. After only sixty-eight years of prohibition, the scarcity of Cannabis has brought mankind to the brink of global catastrophe, over possession of toxic, unevenly distributed, finite petroleum deposits.
The "blackest market" there is, is the petroleum market, measured in the number of deaths, illnesses, and violent conflicts attributable to the fossil fuels industry. Our economic inheritance from previous generations could have been a sustainable system, but it wasn't. We inherited a perverse set of values in conflict with the Natural Order.
What we must pass on to our children is a "green market" which prioritizes respect for the natural systems which operate synergistically to stabilize the planet, and could evolve human relations to resemble the ancient peaceful species, rather than violent, extinct ones. Extinctionistic economics has evolved false spiritual extremism, needed to reinforce a warped set of fundamental values.
Cannabis prohibition is over as soon as people recognize what is truly valuable, admit that there is urgency in developing a sincere spiritual legal defense, for whatever benefit Cannabis affords them. Making the connection between spirituality and gratitude, trust and truth, Nature and economics, a massive global planting of Cannabis could still happen this Spring.
People will either recognize the moral obligation to create Natural abundance of food, fuel, medicines, etc. are primary healing elements for most of the imbalances that we are facing, or they won't. If some choose not to, then that is their choice. But if I choose to honor the miracles I see in the Natural Order, then I have the right to make that decision without fear of government undermining me, my spiritually relevant economic foundations.
Essential civilian demand for a unique and essential resource is the most direct path to sustainable material abundance. Our right of religious freedom already exists to protect natural values over chemical dominance. People who use Cannabis can be further grateful that the psychoactive dimensions of "Kanneh bos" has elevated our consciousness past the laws blocking the intransigent doors of constrained perception.
Paul von Hartmann
Project P.E.A.C.E.
Planet Ecology Advancing Conscious Economics
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace
THC Ministry International
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Times Online
March 05, 2005
Body&Soul
"Ghosts in a machine"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-100-1509923-100,00.html
What is it that triggers the brain to produce a religious experience?
"For years brain researchers shied away from exotic experiences such as hallucinations, near-death experiences or “intimations of the divine”, on the grounds that there was no way to study them scientifically. But as consciousness has become an academically respectable topic, it has become harder to ignore “altered states”. If memory and imagination can be linked to the activity of groups of neurons, couldn ’t the experience of being “at one with the universe” just be the result of brain cells firing?
Traditionally, one of the ways to stimulate these experiences has been with hallucinatory or psychedelic herbs and drugs — a route that has been declared legally off-limits for individuals and researchers since the 1960s. But that is changing, too. Recently licences have been granted in the USA to study the medical benefits of using such outlawed drugs as Ecstasy and the peyote mushroom to treat psychological conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
It may be a sign of the times that just before Christmas the US Supreme Court ruled that members of the New Mexico branch of a Brazilian church, Uniao Do Vegetal, should be allowed to use the hallucinatory herbal concoction ayahuasca in ceremonies. Ayahuasca has long been used by South American shamans and is renowned for the snake visions it induces. "
Religion, Art and the Brain is at Theatre Royal, Winchester, March 10-13; 01962 840440, www.artandmind.org
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Fyrefly1
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People will either recognize the moral obligation to create Natural abundance of food, fuel, medicines, etc. are primary healing elements for most of the imbalances that we are facing, or they won't. If some choose not to, then that is their choice. But if I choose to honor the miracles I see in the Natural Order, then I have the right to make that decision without fear of government undermining me, my spiritually relevant economic foundations.
Essential civilian demand for a unique and essential resource is the most direct path to sustainable material abundance. Our right of religious freedom already exists to protect natural values over chemical dominance. People who use Cannabis can be further grateful that the psychoactive dimensions of "Kanneh bos" has elevated our consciousness past the laws blocking the intransigent doors of constrained perception. |
It is indeed wonderful to see such an august person as Paul von Hartman writing such an honest empassioned appeal for sanity in an insane world!
Ferre, do you know this guy? He's pretty cool!
He and Roger should get together.
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Rev.Holden Greene
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this guy is one hell of a wrihter
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Mystic Power
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This one should be copy/pasted to a word.doc and kept in every ministers files.
Bliss,
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Fyrefly1
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| Mystic Power wrote: |
This one should be copy/pasted to a word.doc and kept in every ministers files.
Bliss,
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Ain't it the truth!
I'm gonna do that very thing.......today!
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sara
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I agree with you Ben, any fool can understand what it says and will agree. 
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:10 am Post subject: |
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| "For years brain researchers shied away from exotic experiences such as hallucinations, near-death experiences or “intimations of the divine”, on the grounds that there was no way to study them scientifically. |
thats the saddest part about the whole article, that so called professional researchers feel uneasy to do so called rogue science....ahhhh capitalism is fun.....
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Fyrefly1
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Most of the reason depends on whether they can get financing....
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Ferre
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Oops, sorry for not replying earlyer brother Joe, yep, brother Paul is a dear friend of both Roger and me, a fellow THC Minister and he is doing lots of things for our ministry behind the scenes. Paul is also working close with some international legalisation organisations and making a documentary about Hemp/Cannabis.
he is a very talented and skilled writer who really knows all the ins and outs of all facets of cannabis in culture throughout history.
Oh, and he is also one of the founders of the Cannabis College here in Amsterdam and used to live here for a while.
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Stokes
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Sounds like brother Paul is a real trooper.
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Fyrefly1
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| Ferre wrote: |
Oops, sorry for not replying earlyer brother Joe, yep, brother Paul is a dear friend of both Roger and me, a fellow THC Minister and he is doing lots of things for our ministry behind the scenes. Paul is also working close with some international legalisation organisations and making a documentary about Hemp/Cannabis.
he is a very talented and skilled writer who really knows all the ins and outs of all facets of cannabis in culture throughout history.
Oh, and he is also one of the founders of the Cannabis College here in Amsterdam and used to live here for a while.
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Ahhhh....
We are, all of us, in the company of Great people!
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There is little doubt in my mind that human evolution has been aided by access to sacred plants that helped to expand our minds and enable us to be more creative.
The human genius may well have been enhanced and expanded quicker in our development due to sacred plants like Cannabis. By expanding our imaginations, making us more artistically, socially, spiritually evolved we became something more, faster, than we might have otherwise.
Its in a climate of oppression and prohibition that we find human development being slowed or perverted in ways that are counter to the free thinking, artistic, imaginative, spiritual beings that we should all be.
Who knows...
Peace
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exactly, which is what makes living in a capitalist world such a fun and fulfilling experience 
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Fyrefly1
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| Rev Chaz wrote: |
| Its in a climate of oppression and prohibition that we find human development being slowed or perverted in ways that are counter to the free thinking, artistic, imaginative, spiritual beings that we should all be. |
Nicely put.....
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| Rev. Chazman wrote: |
| ...human evolution has been aided by access to sacred plants that helped to expand our minds and enable us to be more creative. |
Amen, Rev. Chazman.
Bliss
Ben
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