Why Aghoris Consume Wired Things? Spirituality and Psychedelics | Myths & Facts Explained
Summary
TLDRThe video script narrates the tragic consequences of psychedelic substance abuse, highlighting a medical student's self-inflicted death due to addiction. It delves into the effects of these substances, which can alter perception and reality, leading to mental instability. The script also explores cultural practices, such as the use of cannabis in Varanasi during Mahashivratri, and the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelics like Ayahuasca, which, when guided by experts, may help treat mental health conditions. However, it underscores the importance of responsible use and the dangers of unsupervised consumption.
Takeaways
- đ A 24-year-old medical student tragically ended his life due to addiction to psychedelics, highlighting the severe mental health risks associated with these substances.
- đż Psychedelics are derived from Greek words meaning 'to manifest imaginary realities,' and can drastically alter perception and thought processes temporarily.
- đ Psychedelics are often referred to as 'dry addictions' and can be found naturally in plants like bhaang, ganja, and certain mushrooms, or synthetically made, such as LSD.
- đ§ââïž The state of being under the influence of psychedelics is called a 'trip,' during which users may lose control over their actions and experience heightened anxiety or restlessness.
- đïž The script mentions a case where college students in Kodaikanal experienced varied reactions to consuming 'magic mushrooms,' with one girl requiring long-term psychiatric treatment.
- đ The effects of psychedelic substances can differ significantly among individuals, with some merely experiencing intoxication, while others may lose mental balance.
- đ In Varanasi, India, cannabis is used during the Mahashivratri festival in the belief that Lord Shiva consumed it, but excessive use can lead to mental imbalance.
- đ± The spiritual and medicinal importance of substances like bhang is being overshadowed by their recreational and intoxicating use.
- đ§ââïž A spiritual guru in Haryana used Ayahuasca for healing, helping participants confront their past and make significant life changes, demonstrating the potential for therapeutic use under guidance.
- đ§Ș Researcher Carol Rutledge explains that psychedelics can profoundly affect the subconscious mind, forcing individuals to confront suppressed memories and desires.
- đ Despite potential therapeutic benefits, the dangerous effects of psychedelics underscore the need for expert guidance and caution in their use.
Q & A
What tragic incident occurred involving a 24-year-old medical student in November 2021?
-A 24-year-old medical student was found roaming the streets with a bloody knife and later fell unconscious. Upon assistance, it was discovered that he had cut his own throat and was heavily addicted to psychedelic substances for 10 years, which had impaired his mental state. He died shortly after being taken to the hospital.
What is the connection between psychedelics and the tragic incident involving the medical student?
-The medical student's addiction to psychedelic substances had completely overpowered his mind, leading to a loss of ability to think and understand. His addiction was so severe that he did not even feel the pain while self-harming, which ultimately resulted in his tragic death.
What does the term 'Psychedelics' mean and how do they affect users?
-Psychedelics is a term derived from two Greek words meaning to access or manifest new or imaginary realities. They are substances that can drastically alter one's perception, thoughts, and consciousness, often leading users to experience hallucinations or feel as if they are in a dream state with their eyes open.
What are some natural sources of psychedelics mentioned in the script?
-The script mentions natural sources of psychedelics such as bhaang (a type of cannabis), ganja (another term for cannabis), and addictive mushrooms.
What is the term used to describe the state of mind induced by psychedelic substances?
-The state of mind induced by psychedelic substances is referred to as a 'trip,' during which users may lose control of their actions and experience a trance-like state.
What dangerous effects did the college students experience after consuming magic mushrooms in Kodaikanal?
-After consuming magic mushrooms, the college students experienced a range of effects from laughing to feeling pain. One girl had a particularly dangerous experience, shivering uncontrollably and requiring psychiatric treatment afterward, showing symptoms of mental diseases such as psychosis and schizophrenia.
Why are psychedelic substances like magic mushrooms sometimes used without expert guidance?
-The script suggests that the dangerous effects of psychedelics often occur when these substances are consumed without any guidance or expert advice, leading to a loss of mental balance and potentially severe psychological consequences.
What is the significance of bhaang and cannabis in the context of Lord Shiva and the festival of Mahashivratri?
-Bhaang and cannabis are associated with Lord Shiva, who is believed to have consumed these substances. During Mahashivratri, many devotees in Varanasi consume bhaang and cannabis as part of their celebration and devotion to Lord Shiva, based on beliefs rooted in mythology and ancient texts.
What is the spiritual significance of bhaang according to the Atharva Veda and tantric texts?
-According to the Atharva Veda, bhang leaves produce a cooling effect in the body. The tantric text Pranatoshi Tantra suggests that consuming bhang before penance allows an ascetic to immerse in tantric knowledge. However, it also warns of the dangers of excessive consumption leading to a loss of mental balance.
What was the purpose of the spiritual healing event in Haryana involving the psychedelic Ayahasca?
-The spiritual guru at the event used Ayahasca to increase participants' spirituality and claimed to connect them with their higher selves. The experience was meant to help individuals confront and overcome past issues, leading to positive life changes such as new jobs, careers, or relationships.
How do psychedelics like Ayahasca affect the human brain according to researcher Carol Rutledge?
-Carol Rutledge suggests that psychedelics like Ayahasca stimulate the subconscious brain, forcing individuals to confront suppressed memories or desires. This can lead to significant changes in the way the brain thinks and perceives reality.
What is the potential therapeutic use of psychedelics as mentioned in the script?
-A trial conducted in 2020 indicated that psychedelics, when administered with expert guidance and psychotherapy, could help treat mental health conditions such as PTSD, depression, and anxiety.
What caution is emphasized regarding the use of psychedelics?
-The script emphasizes the importance of using psychedelics only under the guidance of an expert or medical professional due to their dangerous effects when misused.
Outlines
đš Tragic Consequences of Psychedelic Addiction
The script begins with a harrowing account of a 24-year-old medical student's life cut short by psychedelic addiction. The young man, under the influence of substances like LSD and natural hallucinogens, tragically takes his own life with a knife. The narrative delves into the perils of psychedelics, which can drastically alter perception and mental state, leading to a loss of control and, in severe cases, mental health issues like psychosis and schizophrenia. The story serves as a stark warning about the dangers of unsupervised psychedelic use and the potential for devastating outcomes.
đż Cultural and Spiritual Use of Psychedelics
The second paragraph explores the cultural and spiritual dimensions of psychedelic use, focusing on the Indian city of Varanasi and its annual Mahashivratri celebration. It discusses the traditional belief that Lord Shiva consumed bhang and cannabis as part of his spiritual practices, leading to a widespread custom where devotees partake in these substances during the festival. However, the script also raises concerns about the modern misuse of these substances for intoxication rather than their original spiritual and medicinal purposes. It contrasts this with a more controlled, therapeutic use of psychedelics, such as Ayahuasca, which is employed in some spiritual retreats to help individuals confront their subconscious and overcome personal challenges, under the guidance of experts. The paragraph concludes with a call for responsible use of psychedelics and a reminder of their potential benefits when used appropriately.
Mindmap
Keywords
đĄPsychedelics
đĄAddiction
đĄMental Health
đĄMagic Mushrooms
đĄVaranasi
đĄAyurveda
đĄTantra
đĄAyahasca
đĄSubconscious
đĄExpert Guidance
đĄDepression
Highlights
In November 2021, a medical student's addiction to psychedelics led to a tragic incident where he cut his own throat and died.
Psychedelics are substances that alter perception and cognition, with effects that can be dangerous and lead to mental health issues.
The term 'psychedelics' derives from Greek words meaning to 'access new realities' or 'manifest imaginary realities'.
Psychedelic users may experience hallucinations, such as feeling like they are flying or seeing their body from a distance.
Psychedelics are often referred to as 'dry addictions' and are found in plants like bhaang, ganja, and mushrooms, or lab-made substances like LSD.
Consumption of psychedelics can lead to a state of trance or 'trip' where individuals may lose control of their actions and senses.
In 2022, college students visiting Kodaikanal experienced varied and dangerous reactions after consuming magic mushrooms.
One girl's severe reaction to magic mushrooms resulted in long-term psychiatric treatment and symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia.
Research from 2018 indicates that the effects of psychedelic substances can vary greatly among individuals.
In Varanasi, India, cannabis is used legally once a year during Mahashivratri in honor of Lord Shiva.
The belief that Lord Shiva consumed bhang to counteract poison has led to its use in religious ceremonies and personal intoxication.
Atharva Veda and tantric texts describe the spiritual and medicinal properties of bhang, but warn of the dangers of excessive consumption.
In 2019, a spiritual guru in Haryana used Ayahuasca for healing, leading to profound personal revelations and life changes for participants.
Scientist Carol Rutledge explains that psychedelics can significantly alter the way the human brain thinks by affecting the subconscious.
A 2020 trial suggested that psychedelics, with expert guidance and psychotherapy, could treat conditions like PTSD, depression, and anxiety.
The historical and spiritual significance of psychedelics is overshadowed by their modern use as recreational drugs.
The transcript calls for responsible use of psychedelics under expert guidance due to their potential dangers.
Transcripts
November 2021, a 24 year old medical student was roaming on
the streets with a bloody knife in the middle of the
afternoon.
After walking for a few steps, he fell unconscious.
As soon as his people came to help him, they saw that his
throat was cut and blood was flowing from his body.
He was immediately taken to the hospital, but he died as
soon as he reached there.
It was revealed in the police investigation that he had
himself picked up a knife and cut his throat some time
before he fell unconscious.
And the reason for this was addiction.
That boy was consuming such addictive substances for 10
years, which had completely overpowered his mind.
He had completely lost his ability to think and understand.
He was so addicted that he did not even feel the pain while
injuring himself.
The addictive substances that put such a dangerous effect
on that boy's mind and brought him to this point were
Psychedelics.
Psychedelics are such addictive substances that can
completely change the way you think and the way you see for
a while.
Psychedelics is a combination of two Greek words, which
means to be able to access new realities or to manifest
imaginary realities.
This is why many psychedelic users can look like mental
patients and can also become mental patients.
Sometimes you feel that the walls around you are shaking.
Sometimes you feel that you are flying in the sky.
Sometimes you feel that you are not even a part of this
world.
You can see your body from a distance.
In simple words, after using psychedelics, you see dreams
with your eyes open.
The only difference is that you are living these dreams.
Psychedelics are often called dry addictions in the
language of speech, which are mostly found in the form of
plants.
Such as bhaang, ganja and addictive mushrooms.
Or psychedelics that are made in labs, such as LSD.
As soon as they enter your body, they take over your mind.
After that, you go into a different state of trance or
addiction, which is called a trip.
In this, many times you are not able to control your
actions and you are not in your senses.
This soon-to-be-fixing trance turns into restlessness and
anxiety.
And many times it brings you to the brink of insanity.
In the year 2022, some college students went to visit the
mountains of Kodaikanal.
In those days, a plant called magic mushrooms was in the
news.
People believed that by eating these mushrooms, you can
have a unique psychedelic experience, a different trip.
These mushrooms had become so famous that tourism was
increasing on those small hill stations.
Like other people, the students were also eager to try
these magic mushrooms.
While climbing a hill, they reached a small tent where some
people were drinking the kada made from these mushrooms.
These students thought that they would also sit with them
and have their first psychedelic experience.
They all drank that kada.
As soon as the mushrooms started affecting their body, some
started laughing happily, some fell down in pain, some sat
with their eyes deep in the mountains, some started talking
to themselves.
But among all these, there was a girl who had the most
different and dangerous experience.
As soon as she started drinking the kada, she started
shivering.
Her hands and feet became cold and she entered the tent,
put her knees on her chest and sat in a corner shivering.
She sat there for many hours in the same condition.
And then her friends somehow took her away from there.
After this incident, the girl had to undergo psychiatric
treatment for a long time.
She often started getting panic attacks.
She started feeling like someone wanted to kill her.
She started showing symptoms of mental diseases such as
psychosis and schizophrenia.
But why did this happen only to this girl?
Why was her friends and her experience so different?
According to a research on psychedelic drug effects in
2018, the effects of psychedelic substances can be
different for everyone.
For many people, it is just a state of intoxication.
So many people completely lose themselves in it and lose
their mental balance.
And this often happens when these substances are consumed
without any guidance or expert advice.
Due to these dangerous effects of psychedelics, today in
many countries, psychedelics are used illegally. But there
is a city in India where only cannabis and cannabis is used
once a year.
If Lord Shiva can drink cannabis, why can't we?
This question is raised in every corner of Lord Shiva's
city Varanasi.
Every year on Mahashivratri night, lakhs of devotees come
to Varanasi and celebrate the wedding of Lord Shiva and
Goddess Parvati.
Some are singing devotional songs, some are doing penance
and some are dancing.
But many of these people have completely lost their mental
balance after drinking bhaang and cannabis.
Even today, Lord Shiva is offered these things.
And the reason for all this is a belief.
According to which Lord Shiva also used to consume these
things.
According to a famous story,
Lord Shiva drank all the poison to save the whole universe
from the poison of sea.
But this poison was so powerful that as soon as he drank
it, he started burning his throat.
And that is when Goddess Parvati gave Lord Shiva bhang to
remove this burning.
According to Atharva Veda, bhang leaves produce a kind of
coolness in the body.
And it is believed that due to this Ayurvedic quality,
Lord Shiva consumed this substance for the first time.
According to a tantric text, which is called Pranatoshi
Tantra, by consuming bhang before penance, the ascetic can
completely immerse himself in the knowledge of tantra.
Lord Shiva is also called the deity of tantra.
And Aghori Baba and Naga sages living in Varanasi believe
that Lord Shiva also used to take penance by consuming
bhang.
But in this text it is also written that by consuming bhang
in excess, a person completely loses his mental balance.
And its consequences can be dangerous.
But still, today, by taking the name of Lord Shiva, many
people are using things like bhang and cannabis to drown in
intoxication.
After which a terrible form of these things is emerging.
And the spiritual and medicinal importance written in our
texts are disappearing.
Year 2019, some 9-10 people from different backgrounds
gathered in a farmhouse in Haryana.
They had come here for spiritual healing.
Here, a spiritual guru used a psychedelic called Ayahasca
to increase people's spirituality and used these things
with Yoga Vidya and claimed to connect them with his higher
self. After coming here, all these people faced many
strange experiences.
A 25-year-old man thought he was a 5-year-old boy and went
to his childhood.
Then a man suddenly felt that all the people sitting next
to him have disappeared.
The spiritual guru helped these people to control all these
different and strange experiences that were happening
because of psychedelics.
And all these people said that after this experience, they
got the strength to fight with some of their past things
that were stopping them from moving forward in life.
Someone changed their job, someone changed their career,
someone finally decided to come out of their toxic
relationship, someone went to a new city and started a new
life.
Scientist and drug trial researcher Carol Rutledge says
that psychedelics like Ayahasca make the human brain
experience something that can change the way it thinks to a
great extent.
And the reason for this is the effect of psychedelics on
the subconscious brain.
Our subconscious brain is that part of our brain where we
keep our memories or desires suppressed that we don't want
to face.
And psychedelics stimulate our subconscious brain and force
us to face these things.
A trial conducted in 2020 found that psychedelics for the
treatment of depression can help in treating diseases like
PTSD, depression and anxiety if psychedelics are given with
a limited amount of expert guidance and psychotherapy.
But looking at their dangerous effects, there are many
questions on their use.
And that's why it is important to use psychedelics only in
the guidance of an expert or medical professional.
Along with science, in books like Rigveda and Atharvaveda,
psychedelics have been described as a medicine.
Psychedelics is something that can be seen in different
groups in all the oldest civilizations of the world.
But unfortunately, today it is used mostly to do drugs.
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