Does Cannabis Hinder or Help Your Spiritual Growth?
Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
5 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today’s Life Question of the Week comes from C.J.B. who says they feel relaxed, grounded, and able to understand and receive information from God only when they’ve used cannabis, and feels conflicted about that.
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| 0:00.0 | Peace and Rich's blessings. I am Michael B. Beck with the host of Take Back Your Mind. Blessings, everyone, and welcome to take back your Mind, Life Question of the Week podcast. |
| 0:42.4 | I'm your host, Michael B. Beckwith and it's always my joy to reach into the spiritual |
| 0:47.8 | grab bag and see what question has emerged for me today. |
| 0:53.2 | And today from CJ.J.B. |
| 0:55.7 | He asked this question. |
| 0:57.6 | On my spiritual journey, |
| 1:00.1 | I feel most connected, relaxed, grounded, |
| 1:02.8 | and able to understand and receive information from God |
| 1:05.9 | when I have had cannabis. |
| 1:09.2 | Cannabis and tiva. |
| 1:15.6 | However, I feel conflicted because I don't know if this is wrong. I have a hard time managing my emotions and my nervous system. |
| 1:19.6 | Everything just seems so intense. |
| 1:23.6 | Every story on the news makes me sad and I am constantly overwhelmed by everything. |
| 1:29.3 | Well, I know the power of God, I just can't seem to find rest until I've had cannabis. |
| 1:35.3 | What are your thoughts on this? |
| 1:38.3 | First of all, it's not wrong. |
| 1:42.3 | Now that it's legal and people are using as a kind of a medication, |
| 1:47.5 | it's not wrong in terms of the legal sense. |
| 1:51.2 | However, it does have some debilitating effects on the brain. |
| 1:54.7 | THC, you know, when individuals do brain scans. |
| 2:00.0 | The, it absolutely inhibits the brain from operating at its optimal capacity. |
| 2:10.6 | So it's not wrong. So what you're describing here is called an addiction. |
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