Alcohol and Drugs

 Alcohol and drugs.

The parallel dimensions I have attempted to describe in the piece above are a source of great hope and great frustration, depending upon one's perspective.  Awareness of both dimensions simultaneously has been dismissed in the physical based reality as at best fantasy or at worst mental illness.

Since the physical dimension has been the dominant accepted reality there has been little reward in exploring the soul, other than as a tool of leverage and control by religion. However, whether we accept it or not, believe it or not, are conscious of it or not there is a constant line of communication between the dimensions.

When the physical contravenes the soul we feel it in our heart, but our continual drive for survival sets up an inner conflict as the different aspects of ourselves fight for attention. Our physical is saying "I need to survive" and our soul is saying "No you don't!"

We seek relief from this dynamic in a number of ways.

The advised route is greater awareness or elevated consciousness. This seeks to bridge the gap between the physical and the soul. The awareness we gain is of the existence of the soul and, beyond that, greater consciousness of the source of our choices and actions. As awareness grows we take notice of and are guided by the soul.

Another source of relief comes in the altered state of consciousness offered by alcohol or drugs. The methodology of both is to temporarily cut the connection between dimensions removing the inherent "conflict of interest". Quite literally giving each other a break!

Alcohol locks us into a physical state and is characterised by both a lack of inhibition and of conscience. Drinking alcohol releases the physical from the guidance of the soul, a bit like the kids going wild while their parents go away for the weekend.

Drugs, on the whole, sever the connection in the opposite direction, moving us into the higher dimensional space but without the grounding of the physical. This is how the parents feel while away on that weekend!

However good it feels at the time, both the kids and parents suffer the consequences afterwards!

I think I just talked myself out of a beer.

Big love

Bill