DRUGS AND SELF-EMPOWERMENT


Q:  What can we learn from an individual who uses drugs?

B:  What can you learn from the situation?

Q:  What can we help the young man to learn, etc.?

B:   All right.  Basically and fundamentally, in a general sense, what you
can allow yourself to begin to teach that individual is that, first of
all... not necessarily consciously, we do not wish to imply blame on
anyone, for there is no blame, but there is responsibility... but what
you can share with that young individual is that he has been taught to
believe that he is not self-empowered.  And therefore, believes he must
gain his power in outside exteriorized symbols.

When you allow that individual -- as with any individual -- to know they
are as powerful as they need to be to have any thing that they desire to
have in their lives, without having to hurt anyone else or themselves to
get it, then an individual can look at a tool as a tool, and not as a
crutch.

Recognize, that any experience that anyone has from any tool, including
what you call a drug, which is only a tool, shows an individual what type
of experience the individual (himself) is capable of creating.  The drug
doesn't do anything. You believe that it does. You exist in a universe
wherein you have agreed to abide by what you call the laws of chemical
physics; but it is only an agreement.

You, as the being that you are, are the event itself of taking the drug.
You create the feeling; you create the sensation itself and attribute it to
the tool you have created also.  When you allow yourselves to know that you
are creating the experience, then you can
recognize that perhaps the drug, as a tool, can be utilized to show you
what you are capable of.

But now that you know what you are capable of, since you are doing it
anyway, you no longer need the tool in order to recreate it.  You can
recreate the sensation on your own, any time you wish.  And it is
generally, as we perceive your society to be, that these sensations are
created to instill what the being believes they lack... self-empowerment,
self-confidence, ability, creativity, foresight, awareness, insight.

In this way, you can share the idea that there is nothing right or wrong in
the utilization of these substances; but that an individual can begin to
believe, or continue to believe that the substances are responsible for
what they are experiencing, and they are not. There will always, in your
physiological reality be a parallel, hand-in-hand, chemically observable
reaction to which you have attributed the actual creation of the
experience.  But the creation of the experience is there to begin with, and
the chemical reaction is a side effect -- totally.

Therefore recognize, that if you can teach the individual that they are as
powerful as they need to be, to create anything they desire in their life --
 that they have that capability -- then they can, perhaps, view a tool and
utilize a tool as a tool, and not need to continue to rely on the tool for
the source of their self-empowerment.  That is what creates addiction, they
do not believe the power is within them; they believe it is in the tool.
Does that assist you?

Q: Yes, indeed.

B:  Share those ideas and see what the individual can do with that.

Q:  Thank you.