Greetings to everyone, nice to meet you in the new forum. I have a question and don't know if it is appropriate to the new forum, because the original question is in the old message board, here is the linkage: https://forum.schoolofevolutionaryastrology.com/index.php/topic,1752.0.html I am not specially asking Rad for answer, just because the original questions is in his guidance, I am totally open to any mediators including Rad, if he has time and energy. Thank you! Below is my question. In Taoist practice, there is a long tradition of make pills of immortality, it is called external Golden elixir; At the same time, they also practice meditation, or Qigong, it called inner Golden elixir. I think those magic "pills" are addictive drugs, if it is not so addictive, why so many people( including many emperors and nobility) died in overdose? What part does drug play in human's evolutionary development? it is a useful method or gradually destroy human body and spirit, made human being a slave? If God made the earth full of drug plants, I think they have its own roles or reasons to play, would anyone clarify this question? I also studied Bill Wilson's life stories, His birth chart perfect illuminates his alcoholism and his co-founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. His S.node is Virgo in the 11th house, Neptune square the nodal axis, and the Neptune is in Gemini 8th house, when he starts his first drink, he wants to relief his nervousness in public speech, in his 15 years of alcoholism history, he gradually lost job, child, money, and health. In Rad's above articles about Bill Wilson ( that is, when God visited him in the hospital room), it was happened in his last (also the fourth time) alcoholism treatment. I think AA is so emphasize "hit the bottom" method because of this, because of his own experiences, his Neptune in the 8th house. However, Bill never really clean in drugs, according to his private letters, throughout his life, he was a smoker, and in the 1960s, he also takes various of hallucinogens. During the period of studying human's drug history and some cases, I became more and more horrible to the deep areas of Neptune archetype. In one end, it is God and saint, absolute clean and sober, another end is absolute slave. both have the effect of setting aside human body, just live as consciousness beings. the only difference is that saint consciously choosing discard human reality, the addict been abandoned by it. I just cannot understand that how can people rising above this body and soul pollution if he or she is programed in this incarnation with difficult drug addiction? (I think those pollution is vital and irreversible) is there some meaning in it? Really thanks and Namaste
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Hi Chengtling
Relative to drugs once they become addictive to any Soul they then become automatically destructive. All the natural chemicals in plants that alter consciousness, for example peyote, can be a positive evolutionary development for any given Soul because they expand consciousness. It is when they become addictive, a dependency, that they can become destructive.
God Bless, Rad