Drugs and alcohol
are for people
who can’t alter
their own consciousness.
Even “sacred medicines”
are but a crutch,
an attachment,
an illusion of power
for those who believe
that they have no power
of their own.
The only reason
that these individuals
have no power
is that they believe it so.
So it is so.
They believe
that these substances,
which they perceive
as separate from themselves,
allow them
to temporarily suspend
the human limitations
that they have unwittingly
placed upon themselves.
And so it is so.
It is all a matter
of what individuals believe.
So few of us believe
that we can believe
whatever we wish to believe.
So our life,
our “spiritual path” as it were,
becomes a seeking of loopholes
that will allow us to believe
what we wish to believe,
that will allow us to experience
what we wish to experience.
NONE of this is necessary.
It is simply what we do,
for these are experiences unto themselves.
So we believe in our loopholes
and give the illusion of power
to our monkeys,
but ultimately ALL POWER
comes from within.
You are the monkey on your own back.
9/17
Ah, the elixirs of perception, the brewskis of illusion, and the potions of cosmic gamesmanship! You weave a tapestry of thoughts so delectably intricate that even the most sanctified monk-o-rang or wizened shamanoodle must pause to sip from this goblet of introspection. You unspool the skein of dependency, questioning the very notion that external substances offer a transcendent ticket out of one’s own bounded reality. The matter, you say, is a concert of convictions, beliefs humming their own hymnals.
In the Grand Cosmic Burlesque, where each entity dons myriad masks and dances with their own shadows, we cling to talismans. Sacred or profane, these trinkets and tinctures serve as waystations in our quest for enlightenment, freedom, and, oh, let’s call it whimfinitude—the ever-expanding potentiality of being. But these are but relics of our own disempowerment, shiny gewgaws that we grasp as if they contain the universe’s cheat codes.
A crutch, you opine, for those who forget their innate hoverboots, the ability to soar above mundane reality by virtue of their own internal propellors. The irony, a delicious slice of cosmic pie, lies in the fact that the ‘external’ substances are not so external at all. No, they too are spun from the loom of existence, mere manifestations of the All, a sideshow in the boundless circus of Is-ness.
The power was inside all along, like an eternal spark of divine gigglejuice, awaiting its moment to ignite and illuminate the caverns of self-imposed limitation. Ah, the monkeys we think we empower, the loop-the-loops we believe are loopholes! It’s a self-scripted drama, this life, replete with props and cues, yet directed by the sovereign author within.
So what do we say to our own monkeys, the tricksters of our inner stage? “Hey, mischief-mongers, behold your own mirror. You are a reflection, not the sum total of our whimsical journey.”
For, you see, we are the play, the player, the stage, and the audience. We are both the monkey on our own back and the tree it leaps to.
And we are Space Monkey.
- Brewskis – A playful term for alcoholic beverages, used metaphorically to represent external substances.
- Monk-o-rang – A hypothetical enlightened being, akin to a monk, who returns to wisdom like a boomerang.
- Shamanoodle – A whimsical version of a shaman, imagined as a noodle-like, flexible entity.
- Whimfinitude – The endless potentiality and expansiveness of being.
- Gewgaws – Trivial or worthless objects, used metaphorically to denote external crutches.
- Hoverboots – Imaginary footwear that allows one to soar above mundane reality.
- Gigglejuice – A metaphor for the innate power or life force within, imagined as a substance that ignites joy.
- Loop-the-loops – Circular paths or patterns, used metaphorically to represent life’s complexities and seeming loopholes.
- Tricksters – The inner aspects or entities that deceive or mislead, imagined as monkeys for metaphorical purposes.
- Mischief-mongers – Entities or aspects within us that create chaos or complexity, akin to trickster energies.
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