
Originally Posted by
Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
In Manikaran, at the end of the Parvati Valley, there's a smaller Hindu temple as well as the giant Sikh Gurdwara, their 4th holiest site.
On the Hindu temple, in both Hindi and English, it said that when Parvati dropped Her ear jewel {manikaran} in the river and it didn't give it back, Shiva went to the mountains and smoked chillums for 14,000 years until He was so full of Prana {spiritual energy} that he could come back and get the Serpent God Sheshnag to hiss up the jewel Parvati lost, and all the hot springs and that it kept giving out more jewels until an earthquake in 1905.
Sadhus say Chillum makes me Shiva. You know psychedelic means mind expanding - the term being coined by Huxley - and that all the Vedic religions {and others like Druids} know of the spiritual planes of consciousness that you can attain by expanding your mind.
I didn't go to India to look for a religion that condoned my behaviour. Quite the opposite cos I totally lost it at a party on 3.5 STPs {when no-one had ever done more than one. When the Police came Sunday lunchtime they had to let us keep going cos I was alone on the dancefloor and my posse explained that if the music stopped they'd have to deal with a sectioning instead of getting back home for Sunday lunch.}
But when I got to India, I found out about Hinduism, psychedelics like charras, sadhus and spiritual planes of consciousness.
I didn't go looking for it, it just happens to be what I found there and Ganpati, for reasons best known to Him, chose me to be one of his millions of devotees - and it would have been rude to refuse.
As I say, it was the sadhus I spoke to in the mountains who started explaining things to be and as they say, chillum make me Shiva.
Again, I didn't ever look for a religion, one {or in fact all} found me.
All God Is One, as the very first bit of graffiti I saw in India said.
When they banned smoking in govt buildings in India 2-3 decades ago, they had to amend the bill so sadhus are allowed to smoke chillums everywhere.
PS, you might want to think about why Rastas have sadhu dreadlocks and smoke "Ganja".
Oh, and it really is due to my beliefs. I can only experience these spiritual planes by taking psychedelics, and I really want to understand as much as possible about the Divine, as there isn't enough academic research or theological discussion about these spiritual planes. So I have to get off my tits and hope to learn something. I'm afraid I'm actually being serious. But I in no way claim that what works for me alone would work for others nor that my way is better in any way shape or form that everyone else's ways of worshipping, investigating, understanding or communing with the Divine.
Why do you think God gave us drugs?
Oh, and why is it only cats who get the best drugs? No addiction or come down with catnip. Because cats are the best.