Re: Marijuana

Ok, this is right off the top of my head, but it seems to me that conditioning plays a great role in how we perceive our creativity and the form we choose to express it in. Being brilliant at maths is more a left-brain oriented activity which is highly encouraged when children are at school.

Art and music, though essentially a right-brain, intuitive and counter-linear form of expression, are generally and most unfortunately taught in the same way: attention to theory, structure, the classics, and a lot of imitative activity. What is missing from these concepts is the child-like playfulness which allows you to get messy and dirty and just plain silly until you reach a love relationship with the instrument or paintbrush which will allow you to create something original, something that has the essence of oneself.

Perhaps if you de-condition yourself from the way music has to sound like, or what a painting should look like, you will start freeing your expression without the help of marijuana. This means that in the beginning you might just start with being playful, banging away at the musical instrument without trying to arrive at a specific tune. Just feel the music, listen to what you're saying and how you feel even if what you produce doesn't have any rhyme or rhythm. This way you may get into the hang of expressing deeper and deeper aspects of yourself until you get totally lost in what you're playing and doing, all without the mj haze.

The more you rely on a herb, the more personal power you throw away. True, a lot of gorgeous music has been inspired by marijuana and other hallucinogens or alcohol, but look at what the dependency did to the artist's personality. Most suffered from depression, or ended up living a tumultuous or short life. Herbs are helpers and tools, but they are not the keyholders, and one's idea of oneself suffers if you keep telling yourself you need a drug to sing, write, or paint.

Mj in particular is an powerful ally herb that has been used for centuries by indigenous peoples. One of its functions is helping one relax and open one's intuitive centres, in order to see past conditions and blockages, at what one could trully become. However, it doesn't actually deal with the removal of these blockages. Their removal is a willingness to exlore and deal with limited concepts and conditions about ourself and our creativity.

The latter might seem totally alien at first, as it unfolds, but when one begins to enter the trance of pure creation, music or art aren't formed or forced, they just HAPPEN.

Hope this has been of some help.

Blessings!


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