Drugs, Again

Aldous Huxley made it interesting to say that when you take a drug, the normal side effects are not always the same. That is a very important fact to take to heart. This includes any drug you take, whether prescription, over the counter, or even illegal, if you’re a person who does that. I found it interesting when he went on to explain about the side effects he experienced. While taking the drug Mescalin, he experienced a huge increase in awareness. There was an infallible intensity of existence, perception of significance, relationships, the loss of predominance in space, the mind loosing interest in measures and specific locations, a major focusing on being and meaning, an indifference in time, and a still life recognition to relative objectivity in the world. His primary focus mostly became triggered on the concern of forms and their relationships with one another. “Place and distance cease to be of much interest.” (The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell, Page 20) What is said to happen to most people who take Mescalin, is a reduction in the normal ability to remember, or to think normally, visual impressions are intensified, loss of interest in space, a great loss in time, and loss of will or the motivation to do anything in particular. It is believed by the author that “most visualizers are transformed by mescalin into visionaries.”(The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell, Page 45) I do not agree on this. Once again, I feel anyone who has to use drugs to see visions, hallucinations, foreshadows, or whatever the case may be weakens a person. These people are not visionaries, they are just high. Only people who are weak take themselves out of the normal realm of reality, instead of facing it head on. That is my belief. The weak look for a crutch to fall on while the strong stay sober, drug free, and face there problems, issues, concerns, fears, and pain.