Today we dissect the fairy dust of a capitalistic society. Drugs. We can save not only those stuck chasing fairy dust, or those that die searching, but those that let that fairy dust blind them from the true path of virtuosity.
Teaching from a virtuoso pianist, Vladimir Horowitz
When asked what’s his secret, he says it without hesitation. 8 hours of practice per day.
His melancholy however did bring him to a period of drug struggle. Sedatives & fire water, though these actually hindered his virtuosity temporarily. The clarification that he never took “performance enhancers” for his performances brings us to the next section.
“Performance Enhancers”
The title these substances have earned, reveal how deeply fairy dust is embedded in society. “Performance enhancers” are the excuse of even those along the same path partaking in the same “performance enhancers” in attempts to get ahead in their fields, from music to politics.
Let’s review those often excused as “performance enhancers” and what they actually do:
Psychedelics:This is the go to excuse for musicians that also assume that skills just fall from the sky. This is the dilemma often those same musicians face when doing the psychedelics, yet……..not being able to play.Stimulants:The capitalistic fairy dust. Purchase your happiness, focus, and motivation directly, polluted with unnatural sexuality, an inability to step back and evaluate your creations, and this strange drive to celebrate exactly what you’re most passionately against, whatever that may be. Self destruction is literally written into that script. As is quantity>quality.Mystery drug:this is the stick they reach for when they cant find any other. Usually things like DXM, Ketamine, GHB, Research Chemicals, etc.Marijuana:Somehow an 8 bit version of yourself could be responsible for the years it took to develop an ear and technique to get those horns perfectly balanced. Joey McDevitt says it perfectly. Marijuana takes away bravery. Instead of doing your standup comedy, you instead think of all the reasons why you shouldn’t. If you smoke and maintain output, try a 1 year break and watch your virtuosity gift itself to you beyond your dreams. Those super riffs you assumed came from the quality of the herb, watch them happen by simply waking up, Free.Caffeine:Also, a stimulant, though with unique hinderances that all stem from pace itself. Anxiety in a cup. Over glossing the very melancholy that gifts virtuosity, thus you find yourself often having to redo what you wrote “hyped up.” Caffeine is the antithesis to endurance as you set yourself up for a crash daily, while keeping yourself in a rushed pace, instead of giving yourself space for reflection.
What they promise to give, they take away!
Here’s the fatal blow to the pharmacological industry.
What they give while on, they take away while off.
Adderall, Ritalin, etc:The route to take if you want to make ADHD worse. Purchase your focus now, at the cost of your focus later. Autopilot can write your paper today, while you think about potentially hooking up with a 70yo lady tonight in your 20s. Hey it benefits the 70yo, thus they defend these substances, while telling you your attraction is natural, and not the drug, until you come down and can think for yourself again. They’ll even suggest those are your true tastes free from inhibition & that’s the official verdict of psychology today & Thus Ai, that drugs can’t change tastes, only “reveal” who you “truly are.” Yet here I am free from substances, with no urge to hook up with a 70yo lady at all in my 30s. I feel for those given stimulants from childhood and never getting the opportunity to learn their natural selective attraction. I wonder how much of today’s obsession with sexual taboo is a result from normalization of heavy stimulants attempting to heal a societal symptom.Anxiety Meds, Including Fire Water:What goes down must come up. The route to take if you want to make your anxiety worse. Mask it today, while developing a physical dependance that for profit doctors love, as do their counterparts on the streets: drug dealers.
The real magic
- Faith
- Life Giving Intention
- Perseverance
- Endurability
- unshakeability
All these things grow the more you nurture them. 8 hours per day is easily something we can write off as crazy, while accepting it’s something we can never reach, though the truth is, it grows into 8+ hours per day if we wish. It all can start with just 10 minutes per day. Like lifting a 10lb weight, you soon find yourself able to lift twice as much. Soon 1 hour per day is like checking your scroll feed. You may wonder like I did…How will I stay actively engaged for a full day at my craft? Wont it get boring? This is the magical part. Somehow the thrillingness of it itself grows. New ideas will arrive out of the blue, & often. Just when you think, I dont want to wake up and face another day of this, im all out of ideas…that’s when the gifts are practically thrown in your hands, and not just a gift to sustain you for the day, though enough creative and motivational fuel for a life time.
Focus grows from trying to focus. Faith growths from seeds of faith. Intention grows as you grow. Perseverance grows like all habits grow. Endurability grows from enduring. Unshakeability grows from being.
Virtuoso’s themselves often think substances are the reason for their virtuosity.
I have a pair of boxers in the design of gift wrap. I’ve associated “a gift is coming” every time I wear them, so on those days I actually try harder. It’s to the point that If I wear those on days meant to be a receptive instead of application period, I actually get anxiety feeling like I’m not “productive enough” that day. This same phenomenon takes place with any substance.
When the best in an area all have the same substances in common, we then associate needing that substance to be our best. It’s the botox phenomenon. Everyone see’s the most celebrated with botox, & think botox is what they’re missing. Even though natural objectively looks better, natural doesn’t fuel an economy.
It gets to the point that they feel they need that “magical thing” to even create. Substances multiply this effect as it’s an actual neurological change being associated with the “magic.” When a substance is their motivation, suddenly there’s no motivation in its absence as that substance took place of the practice of motivating themselves. If they free themselves from that association, knowing natural motivation awaits them through their practice with effort, they can surpass substance induced motivation healthily without their pitfalls.
Its Christmas All Year Round.
Psychedelics taking the place of God
One thing I notice in those that champion psychedelics is how they attribute all the magic of life to them. Even consciousness itself. All their growth becomes the mushroom. If they enter a period of great creativity, they accept it as coming from the mushroom, rather than the omega point of Creativity itself, the Divine Center & all its unfolding’s of which we are ever a part of. Some wish to subtract the Divine from everything, the aim of science; though humbling ourselves; letting go of our ego the way psychedelics church devotion; that very humbling isn’t a downfall, just misattribution. As with everything within The Divine, psychedelics are a facet of God.
It’s the same missing revelation we find with the “side effects” of stimulants. That “turning yourself inside out,” that inversion… isn’t an aim of the drug designer, but a perfectly synced subliminal design of The Divine itself. Those side effects are there to save us in kindhearted humor.
The Psychedelic Spiritual Path emphasizes being a direct link to The Divine, without mediators, though places itself as the mediator. A direct link with The Divine is our birthright, as no life is outside of God. Every thought as valid & direct as prayer. Every moment a part of. We don’t have to take in any substance or mediator; we only have to see what was always there, waiting patiently, for your embrace.