Starseed & Wanderer "Issues" Regarding Substance Use, Abuse, and Addiction

Welcome to Evolved Sun. This is your host, Matt Finch, and in today's episode, you're going to be learning about the topic of Wanderers, aka Starseeds, and societal issues of drugs, alcohol, and addiction. And I'm going to be using today as a resource, a Wanderer's Handbook by Carla Ruckert of LL Research, specifically the chapter on Wanderer-Starseed societal issues, and I've done a few videos from this chapter previously, including Starseed-Wanderer issues of money and work, and Wanderer or Starseed issues of suicide. Now, I'm excited to present this topic to you on drugs and addiction. Carla Ruckert has a lot of wisdom in this area, and without further ado, here is Carla Ruckert, the telepathic trance channel of The Raw Contact. She passed away, I think around 2015, but she did leave us the 106 raw material sessions, as well as several books on The Law of One and the raw material and related topics. Alright, so here's what Carla has to say about Wanderers, aka Starseeds, Drug addiction seems to be a part of every society, from the most primitive to the most technologically advanced. We as human beings seem to be able to find an infinite number of ways to alter our consciousnesses with things we drink, eat, smoke, or have injected into our systems. Excessive use of such substances seems to be an integral part of celebrating holidays and special occasions for many. I would be the last to condemn the more innocuous substances out of hand, for I enjoy a little in moderation. On the other hand, having had alcoholics in my birth family, I know exactly how much chaos and distress overuse of addictive substances causes in a family. Usually, though cigarette smoking is a nasty and mortal addiction, its excess does not break up families, nor do caffeinated substances like tea, coffee, and cola, but the full range of other drugs can and will break up families and destroy people with a ravenous and impersonal hunger. In some cases, such as with hard drugs and street drugs, I would feel secure in advising us all never to pick up or try them even the first time. All the various forms of cocaine, all the party drugs, designer drugs, and safe drugs with various names with exotic chemicals in them, can be counted on to be too hot to handle by anyone. For alcohol and marijuana, however, I see appropriate usage as a matter of degree. Those of Quo suggest the nature of addiction or vice can be seen to be that which takes a good thing and simply overdoes it. What drives entities to addiction, very simply, is the instinct that the body, the mind, and the spirit have to seek comfort, enjoyment, and peace. The drug seeker is looking for ways to feel better. In this way, it can be clearly seen that drug usage is service to self and its polarity. C.S. Lewis said that there is no neutral ground in the universe. For the victim of substance abuse, there is no neutral ground between the self-serving negative path and the positive path of service to others and the seeking of the higher self. It is one or the other. For a person in pain, the service to self aspect is largely irrelevant, for it is felt that the drugs are needed to allay pain. And Jonathan Boyne says, Experimenting with LSD had great insights and depression. It seemed clear that Earth was headed for disaster of all sorts, some of which I have seen from space, in ships, out of body, with no sane livelihood available. Suicidal at 18 to 20. I was hospitalized three times for overdoses, wanting to return to a more sensible place. Especially when we are alienated and unable to find satisfying work, Earth can seem far less than a sensible place. However, drugging the self to the point of overdose is a far cry from that thought of using a little pot or alcohol to enhance a celebration. So, if we are trying to come to some conclusion about our own usage, we need to see where we are on that scale, from celebratory drugs to sociable drugs. We need to see where we are on that scale, from celebratory drugs to sociable drugs, to drugs as a painkiller, to drugs as an escape. The first two categories are pretty safe for most people, although if we are from addictive gene pools, we must always watch any intake. The third category is not one we want to be in often, and the fourth category is never a good idea to choose. Drugs may seem like an escape, but they are a blind alley, often a fatal one to enter. We as a civilization seem to seek drugs as medicine a good deal, and I am certainly a participant in that. As of this date, I am taking 10 medications for which I need a prescription, and another 10 herbal and other preparations intended to work on one or another condition of my often poorly testing physical vehicle. Cortisone and other powerful drugs run through my body all the time, helping me mechanically to control various conditions that have not responded to diet and exercise. In addition, I drink a glass of wine probably once a week. I genuinely wish to function as fully as possible in consensus reality, and watch carefully the substances I take. But I cannot be holier than thou on this subject when I use the crutches that medicine and drugs represent, to help blunt the edges of my own conditions and symptoms. Again, it is a matter of degree. I think this is true of any addiction. We can certainly also have addictions to work, or to avocations, for example. It is always a matter of appropriate degree. Several wanderers talk about this. The marriage lasted six years. I gave him all the love, devotion, and compassion I had to give. I gave the marriage my all, and it didn't work, of course. Time began the walk on the road to kill. I began taking drugs, drinking, and an attitude that life is a sick joke. The drugs made me forget all the pain. Drugs numbed me. The stress alone nearly killed me. Drugs were all I had that made me feel better. He relies very heavily on daily use of marijuana and beer to soothe his soul, and to take the edge off whatever harshness exists between himself and the world. I think he does this in lieu of going inward and finding strength and protection from within. Or if he does go inward, it is out of paranoia or to hide, not so much to connect with the higher source. When confronted about his dependency, he shows no signs of ever giving it up. I take medication myself because I came to a point where I knew the burden of my life choices was overwhelming me and that if I was going to just keep walking, I had to be able to cope with my tests one at a time. I have difficulty even identifying physically. I feel straddling words can be dangerous. I have to make a conscious effort to remember to eat, get enough sleep, i.e. take care of the body. I think that many people can accept taking medication for a period of time in order to help deal with a certain difficulty. When there is a chronic health situation, we tend to accept prescription drugs into our daily regimen. Under a doctor's care, such uses of medicine seem to me to be relatively acceptable. In the second quote, however, the young man that 131 is talking about does have an addiction problem. No amount of marijuana and beer can substitute for working on our problems. Pharaoh writes, I guess that for the most part, my life has seemed quite a struggle. And alcohol and pot, not to mention antidepressants, have been with me for most of my last 20 years. I'm wondering if I'm as spiritually evolved as I'd like to believe. If I should probably drop these bad habits one of these days. What do you think? I believe I counseled him to keep the antidepressants, but to think carefully about the extent of his other two substances, pot and beer. It is so easy to get into an excessive habit when all we really intended was to indulge in moderation. And moderation can be the difference between a very pleasant life and one rendered dysfunctional and unmanageable. I am not a puritan, but I do encourage this concept of moderation. It is often the case that people come to consciousness-altering substance use as aspirants after knowledge, wisdom, light, and realization. Perhaps some have had great insight thereby. My experience is limited to having taken LSD twice, in the early 80s, and finding no trips in consciousness taking place, just a feeling of great well-being and an unusually ample supply of physical energy, which enabled me completely to clear away all my office work that day. However, the after-effects of this usage was so severe for me, physically, that I decided not to take LSD again. And I have Jim McCarty comments. Drugs, sex, and rock and roll was the new religion of the day, in the late 60s, and I was dedicated to becoming one of its saints. I smoked a lot of marijuana and took a couple of trips on acid, on one of which I heard a voice in my brain say very clearly, you don't have to be stoned to be here. In this regard, as in so many others, Jim's wonderful combination of good, sound judgment and physically accurate intuition and guidance are tremendously appreciated by me. The guidance he got, that we don't have to be stoned to achieve altered states of consciousness, is to my mind most important. I know, for instance, of several methods of altering consciousness that have nothing to do with drugs. Sustained exercise can bring on Satori, as can dancing and shamanic activity. Those of Axel note, nothing is clear in your illusion. Nothing can ever be permanently clear. It is possible to place the mind within a different state of consciousness, because consciousness has little to do with the illusion. That is precisely what the Sufi who dances, the shaman who twirls, the runner who goes beyond his limits, or the entity which takes mind-altering drugs, intends to do. It intends to move to a point of view which is less illusory and more full of that which all humankind seeks, truth. The dancing and exercising, to me, are far safer for the waking personality than taking drugs. I have known several friends who overdid the LSD trips back in the 1960s who had astounding experiences, which manifested in the memory as blazes of light that were flashbacks to the original light-filled experience. The problem with this is that the experience itself, forced onto the consciousness by the substance, was not something the body, mind, or spirit were ready for, and consequently, there was a continuing and chronic loss of power through the higher three centers and a corresponding lack of ability to see the awareness that these experiences brought. It was like an energy leakage. In later life, the trips were only seen as destructive experiences, the flashbacks being times when they became unable to function. Perhaps this sort of difficulty can be cured, but it is not simple or easy to reclaim one's integrity and balance, or to feel again the reservoir of personal power that has been experiencing a slow leak for decades. Drug usage can take us to a higher place, but it is likely to be one we are not ready for and cannot actually use. Let us take the case of those who are using gadgets such as drugs, or shapes, or methods of focusing concentration in order to aid their service to others, for their difficulties arise from a different level than others. Those who are willing to use a crutch in order to vault themselves upwards into the light, whether the crutch be drugs, or magical rituals, or whatever other occult science may be used as a gadget, have literally pulled themselves to a place for which they have not worked, and for which they well may not be ready. Whether or not they are ready to experience the wisdom and light, the love and compassion of intercourse with the deity, they must reckon with the falseness of their positions in the light. Drugs wear off, the magical personality may crumble between the grocery store and gas station. Occult wisdom may leave one without resources when something occurs that is completely against that particular dogmatic method of perceiving the archetypical mind, and alone at last with itself, this entity who has no crutch now, finds itself committed to dispensing actions and words, and the very beingness of itself in a way congruent with what it has learned. The crutch is gone, but the entity is responsible for the light that that crutch has gained. Taking addictive drugs to achieve enlightenment is a cool dissect. It may bring moments of enhanced awareness, but the question remains, can we be responsible for the material we have learned? Metaphysically speaking, unless we have been wholly conscious with the work all the way, we probably cannot. Trying to take shortcuts to enlightenment by the use of drugs is, therefore, a false path, and one I specifically recommend that seekers not take. Far better is the realization that comes in its own time. Have the faith to know that you are on a good track, a blessed path that will bring the light you seek. We are seeking light our whole lives long. Let us do that with good judgment, wit, and the skill we can bring to the moment by the experiences we have had, and the caution we have learned.