How Cannabis Allows users to access Deeper Fields of Consciousness

cannabis and consciousness

Since I first started smoking cannabis, I knew that this plant was going to become a great teacher. I made this conclusion before learning that there are volumes of books dedicated to these “natural teachers” or plants of power.

But what makes cannabis a plant of power and broccoli just food? It comes down to the “psychoactive nature” of the substances within cannabis that has a direct impact on your perception of the world. Biologically speaking and neurologically speaking – this is because delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol or “THC” binds to certain receptors within the brain that increases dopamine, serotonin, and many other internal switches which changes the way you “perceive” things.

Think of it as “temporarily altering” the instruments your brain uses to generate an immersive projection of the “world outside”. These slight alterations in perception shift your entire somatic experience into a different configuration.

You become “loose” and “relaxed”, “you giggle like a little child” and “hear the music differently”. There’s a sense of novelty in the air – the mundane suddenly has a shimmer to it.

People call this “being high” and if we were to merely remain biologically locked in our answers – we could very well chalk this up to “neurochemistry due to the introduction of a foreign agent”.

Wow – the human condition explained so eloquently. Oh – that’s right, human beings are metaphorical, reality generating, wonder beasts that write a subconscious line of “code” that sustains their entire perception of reality internally.

So what happens when you’re “high”. Is it just a chemical dance happening in your brain – or is there something far deeper at play?

Consciousness 101 – How to be aware of being aware

Most people would like to believe that “they are a constant”. They might age or develop, get angry or hurt, but all in all – they are essentially the same person their entire life.

Except – this is a lie that we tell ourselves to sustain the illusion of “identity” required to operate a three-dimensional existence. To “be anything” we have to go through an ever-ending process of death and rebirth within our psyche.

We “outgrow” certain stages of our lives, abandoning all loyalty and interest to the subject matter when we are younger. As we grow older, we learn to identify certain “behavior sets” that seem to work within our direct environment.

These “behavioral elements” are restricted only by the beliefs we have about them. For example; “I can never do X” impedes the person [who might be physically capable of doing X] of doing the activity.

However – since we’re processing an immense amount of information on so many different levels simultaneously – our “bandwidth” is limited and thus the subconscious mind efficiently censors certain elements of our perception to maintain an “illusion of continuity”.

We forget why we “can’t do X” and simply assume that “this is how I have always been” when in reality – up until the initial point when that idea was imprinted into your subconscious – you were never like that before. However, for the sake of “maintaining the core identity sane” within the ever-evolving, expansive and chaotic inner-narrative – the subconscious writes these critical beliefs as “automatic assumptions” which then directs your behavior.

If you’re confused – so is everyone who studies consciousness but this is one way of looking at it.

Cannabis interrupts the “Default Mode” of Consciousness

A human being develops and the victories and traumas of his or her life – physically shape and configures the “body” of the person. This includes neural pathways and modes of operation.

Over time, these neural pathways become automated – because after all the most powerful AI is your subconscious mind. These automated patterns exist solely for the sake of opening up bandwidth. After all, you’re spending so much time consuming bite-sized bits of information on a constant loop while giving your brain only a six to eight-hour interval to process it all.

Your subconscious begins to automated repetitive actions, responses, ideas, beliefs to make more space to “upload” the steaming pile of digital bullshit you’re about to consume today. Within this pile, your subconscious will need to separate relevancy, what you care about, what you hate, what is bullshit, what isn’t, etc.

Thus – automation is the only way to go. However, this decision was made unilaterally by the subconscious mind, and thus – YOU are oblivious to your own automated programs because…they happen without you consciously thinking about it.

But when you start smoking weed – you alter the data uptake which then crashes the automated programming allowing you to experience “new realities” within the fields of perception.

Examples of “Field Fluidity”

To help paint a clearer picture I’ll provide you with a few practical examples. For instance, someone lights up a joint for the first time and presses play on his or her favorite song.

Just as the chorus is about to hit – suddenly, they hear something different in the music. Perhaps a bass line, a voice located spatially somewhere in the corner of the track. There could be several different ways the person could experience a song – which had automated responses programmed – that would interrupt the automatic response system [ARS] and generate a new appreciation for the music.

This is a simple example, however, cannabis also bumps into more significant ARS’ such as “maybe I was wrong about X” or “there could be a different way to do Y”. Maybe this is about how you view other people or even yourself?

These alterations and a slight modification in perception undoubtedly shift your identity matrix and reconfigures your automated responses even if only at a highly superficial level. When you space out or tune into something while high – you are shifting your consciousness from a standard mode into an alternate mode.

For those aware of this mechanism, cannabis becomes a tool to explore deeper states of consciousness to liberate oneself from the pre-written automated programs sabotaging our lives and writing new ones that impulse us to be the best versions we can be.