Vision Without Limits

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.” Some people are like that too. There is a longing for freedom inside us all, even the most enslaved and indoctrinated will dream of flying, and maybe forget the dream but remember the feeling and it scares them. You want to fly? Then give up the shit that weighs you down. Spread your wings and soar. You are the light.

Addictions & Restriction

The war on drugs has become a national joke. The Drug Enforcement Agency, (DEA), wants ever tougher laws and tighter regulations put on prescription drugs. They think that pharmaceuticals are the gateway drugs that lead to the addiction of numerous street drugs, and these tougher laws are their solution to the problem. History however has shown us that tougher drug laws have failed miserably. They neither deter drug use, nor help people who have addictions. Prohibition of alcohol worked much the same way. Prohibitions do nothing but drive up prices and create cartels.

The tougher laws mean doctors can’t effectively treat patients for pain now for fear of losing their license to practice. People who live with chronic pain must just suck it up and suffer. I am one of those people, and I fail to see this helping with addiction problems and frankly, I don’t like being blamed for these problems and having to pay for them, and there are many in my shoes.

Let’s take a look at addictions and what causes them and what are the effects of environment on them. Why can one person take pain medication after surgery and not become addicted, and another person does? Are all addictions created equal? I have been on every side of this subject. I have lived with an alcoholic, I have been addicted to more than a couple things myself and battled back from it, and I have four years of psychology under my belt.

While in school, my research revealed that countries who did not enforce drug laws, did not see the addiction problems that the US has, not even close. My findings are that, the predisposition to addiction starts in childhood. Preteen trauma is the worst but trauma, both emotional and physical have huge negative lasting effects, like depression, PTSD, and of course a predisposition to addiction. That is bad enough on its’ own but then you add in tough drug laws and that is where it tends to get worse. When the US has twice as many prisoners as China, with half the population, you must stop and look for the monster in the closet and expose it.

What I am about to tell you usually lands me in an argument, and makes some people get very angry with me, but it is the truth. If you decriminalize all drugs, you can watch the drug problem start to take care of itself. Because the biggest cartels in our country are government, and because the pharmaceutical organizations would lose money, we may likely never see this as a fix.

Think about this for a minute; the recreational drug user, hurts nobody! The recreational drug used does not push drugs on others, nor make a living selling them or manufacturing them. The recreational user does not affect other people at all in any way. So that is not creating a problem. The addict is however a problem. Once laws are removed, those people will hit bottom and seek help, and because they are no longer a criminal, but instead, a sick person, they will be treated differently, and giving there is an adequate mental health program available, then just like magic, the cartels are not making the big bucks anymore, the prisons and jails do not have to house people with particular mental health issues; the courts, cops, and DEA don’t have to deal with something they don’t have the education to handle, and the band played on…

All addictions are addictions. They are sick fixations on things to make the person with the addiction feel better. It is an illness. You have all heard the term, “self-medicating;” they are usually referring to drugs and alcohol, but may be any number of things that give comfort and/or cause an endorphin flood in the brain. Cigarettes, food, or any eating disorder, to name a few, but the truth is, hording is an addiction. The cat lady who lives with 40 cats, and the guy who can’t throw his garbage away, to the gazillionaire with so much money he could never spend it but keeps racking in more. Because a long ago wound left a gaping hole in the heart and mind, the addict applies their personal medicine to sooth pain, to not feel, to get an endorphin flood, to not feel alone, or to feel love.

When you take an illness, and criminalize it, you are effectively pushing that person to the fringes of society where they almost never get help. Why are some addictions against the law and others acceptable? The answer is always money! Criminalizing an illness brings in profit for the cartels, the court system, the jails and prisons, keeps the cops on the payroll, and even created a new organization called the DEA. That’s allot of revenue. Now I have to ask you, would you slam your diabetic grandpa with a sugar jones in jail for eating candy bars? Then don’t do it to your drug addicted child, or sibling.

All of the western world are living in a plutocratic consumerist society. When you value things more than people, you get an emotionally and mentally unstable population, and for most of them it is not condemned and some are actually held up as shining examples of we are all supposed to strive for, like the people with more money that they can spend in a lifetime, who still have an insatiable need for more. Things are things, and people are people. Vilifying a percent of the already broken ones never fixes anything, it just creates new problems much like what war does. I guess that is why they defined it as a war in the first place. I find it sad that this has to be explained to so many, and even then they do not get it.

Open minds, open hearts, and empty pockets are my tribe.

We are the light.

Thinking Logically in a World of Insanity

We have been boxed, labeled, wrapped up tight, and tied with a pretty bow. I hate labels, because the only purposes they serve is to give others false presumptions about us, and separate us from each other. These labels do not define who or what we are. Every person is a unique individual with a soul fingerprint, and all are different aspects of one source. 

We who are dyslexic, and autistic, we who have ADHD, aspergers syndrome, or any number of vicissitudes called learning disabilities, have a creative fingerprint when our expression is not blocked. We have also been called: indigos, star seeds, way showers, way seers, and old souls, and while those are more positive labels, they are still labels that separate us and give people false expectations about us. 

We are the inventors, the artist, the musicians, the writers, the innovators, the movers and shakers; we are often very spiritual, but not religious. We also have addictive personalities, and tend to draw anger from others when we speak out against authority, which we do often. We have spent countless years trying to hide our labels because we are embarrassed of those preconceived notions others have about us. 

If we were the majority, and not the minority, the world would be logical to us, because everybody would walk around the block three times to get to the south-west corner, and then cross in the wrong direction. I call this, space exploration; I am exploring the space I live in, and hopefully I have plenty of gas money when I do. The magnetic north in my head has never worked well; it is backwards.

We are not stupid! I can’t stress this enough. We just perceive everything different than others, and the world is not geared to our perceptions or how we communicate, relate, and learn, so it is we who must adapt to everybody else’s condition, and it is work for us. Things like public school is something most of us never get through, because it is ten times more work for us than for the average person. Things like, algebra, Oh hell, ten trips around the block, then ten more times correcting the mistakes. Once we get something though, we get it hard and it sticks. 

We have the best imaginations in the world, thus the art, writing, music, and inventing. We tend to think a little more abstract than others, and because as we struggle to learn things, we tend to explore these things outside the box along the way. An imagination is a terrible thing to waste. Paint it wings, play it music and let it fly! 

We are all from the earth and sky where the spirit dwells before and after walking the earth. We are from an omniscient source that exists in all things, and is still a part of us all. We are from those gypsy souls, on a journey through life, and death, and life. We are from a spectral cosmos, where the essence of our being first began its' exodus, and will return to dwell in the light. We are from the light.
We are the light.

The Revolution

 You say you want a revolution, well you know, we all want to change the world.

 We frogs have been sitting in this pot while the temperature rises, and we are so close to the boiling point that we may not be able to leap out in time. When life has become so important, as to be purchased at the price of slavery to all mankind, you know something has gone terribly wrong. The mask you wear today is a symbol of the blindfold over your eyes, and the ring in your nose.

 You say you want your freedom, well you know, the most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. The revolution starts within, then finishes with all life being honored. It’s allot like love; first you work on yourself, then the rest comes like a storm blowing down societal walls and false constructs. Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

 It might be better to die on your feet fighting for freedom than be a prisoner on your knees all the days of your life. You’re going to die, sooner or later, anyway, no matter if you have spoken out against tyranny or not. Your silence does not protect you. The lies you have been spoon fed all your life will sicken you until you respect fear more than your own words, your own thoughts, and feelings. Speaking out against tyrannical rulers, and injustices is the revolution!

 When the controllers have these wars and expect you to feed your children to the machine, speak out loudly, and don’t participate in them, they are not your wars. When you see genocide happening, speak out loudly. When you see children used and abused and killed, speak out loudly. Make your voice heard. Being silent makes you complicit in their crime. You are not a bystander; this planet is your home and these people are your brothers and sisters.

 The oligarchs have not listen to the  people’s voices for many generations now, and today the voices are much  louder than before, and many more in number. Remember that the problems we have now, were created by governments, so don’t expect the fix to come from within the government, but only by the complete dismantling of them.

We are from the earth and sky where the spirit dwells before or after walking the earth. We are from an omniscient source that exists in all things, and is still a part of us. We are from the gypsy souls, on a journey through life, and death, and life. We are from a spectral cosmos, where the essence of our beings first began its' exodus, and will return to dwell in the light.

We are from the light.

We are the light.