Drug Addiction and Painkillers
Robert FitzGerald Theoretical Astrologer
Drug Addiction and Painkillers
In response to Joy Gilfilen’s blog on the rising addiction to painkillers in this country, yes, it is a national tragedy as she rightfully asserts. But it is something that does fit the astrological nature of these times and it can be addressed by looking at the energies involved and using those energies in more positive ways.
Pisces rules escapism and imprisonment in its more negative expression. We have created around ourselves a secular mindset based on technology that is proving to be emotionally and spiritually deadening for too many people. We all seek to escape the drudgery of our lives through addictions to various activities and substances. As biological beings, we all have a need to experience something beyond ourselves, our divinity. This usually happens through the ecstasy of spiritual practice of some sort. In our Western culture, we try to use consumer technology to make us feel that something greater. The latest technologies are our drugs of choice in this techie realm.
Drugs are a major pathway for the Western mind to achieve this end. Timothy Leary in the 1960s proclaimed the drug LSD to be the Western Yoga. We become addicted to recreational drugs precisely because of the Pisces spiritual-like highs that those drugs offer us. Kids have gone to their parents prescription drugs for years because they are legal and available. Is it any wonder that we now have these new euphoric painkillers, and that we are now turning to them in large numbers? These drugs are being used recreationally as much if not more so than medicinally.
With the already failed war on drugs, I have to wonder if we can really do anything about this without embracing the spiritual element of Pisces escapism. A painkiller by its very nature provides escape from the presence of pain. That very escape is addictive, especially to a body seeking relief from the constant pain of life and failure.
Escapism relates directly to spiritual immersion into the bliss of heaven. Oriental thought during this Age of Pisces equates life as imprisonment on the Wheel of Life, and spiritual attainment is escape from this prison. Either we can seek this euphoric bliss through spiritual practices, or we can take the easy way out and try to find relief and euphoria through drugs. For most of us in our secular West, the technology of drugs is the easier more convenient route.
The Pisces solution here is to embrace some sort of spiritual path as important in our lives. This helps give us a positive spiritual focus and helps us to deal with pain, both medicinally and emotionally, in constructive ways. It focuses our drive to escape away from drugs and toward personal spiritual discipline. Other positive modalities and solutions then become far more effective for us.
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Coallaboration, teamwork and the joy that comes from achievement is the other alternative to false ecstasy as I call it. Talk to peak performers of all kinds, and they will know about the runner’s high, or the high you get after climbing a tree or a mountain, or you do something that was scarey, but you did it and it worked! To me, that is the ecstasy that is the opportunity of today and tomorrow.
I have decided that my ecstacy is to go after changing the worlds systems from being self-destructive and hope annihilating to creating systems that are life-enhancing and empowering to the spirit. In fact, the mission I am on is to turn the course of humanity’s destiny away from living into the story that conflict is a given, that pain and suffering is the norm and that people are bad. This is a low-self worth story of humanity that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that is supported by many of the myths, and some of the ‘religious’ dogma, and most of our systems and governments. This negative self-talk by our politicians, our media and our leaders is actually feeding the self-abuse, self-destruction and low hope fever. This is in turn feeding the addiction indsutry and creating more stories of fear and destruction. No wonder people check out and have to isolate from each other, from the media, go into drug situations, and buy into the defeatest conspiracy theories, Robert.
I say, lets set a new course for humanity! Let’s take on the toughest challenge in the history of mankind and turn our misery into an asset for creating opportunities to write all new stories. Let’s put our spirituality to the test of changing the course of human history to helping us all live into our highest potential. Why not build an appreciating society? I will write more in another post…gotta run.
My question to others is…what makes you high when you are not drugged up or checking out in isolation alone? What hobbies, actions, tasks, goals and activities do you do that give you a sense of ecstacy? How can what you are doing add together with anothers goals to create a team where you all can feel a sense of bonding and togetherness as you take on a challenge that neither of you can do alone?