Comments on: Ask Auntie Suvanna http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/ask-suvanna/ask-auntie-suvanna-1 Explore Meditation Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:56:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jane Alexander http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/ask-suvanna/ask-auntie-suvanna-1/comment-page-1#comment-38628 Jane Alexander Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:16:04 +0000 http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/ask-suvanna/ask-auntie-suvanna-1#comment-38628 re: enlightenment and antidepressants. Auntie S I have enjoyed reading your responses here. I have personal objections and bias about drugs and meditation experiences. I have been on a variety of psychiatric meds as well as street drugs and enthoeogens. I also subscribe to a multi dimensional aspect of being. Physical, energetic, emotional, mental, psychic, karmic, etc. etc Due to my personal experiences with meditation and drug effects I can not ever recommend combining them really. Short term use, perhaps maybe. A muscle relaxant, a pain killer, perhaps maybe. These drugs effect all layers of being. You can not tweak the physical without tweaking some aspect of the mental and emotional. It's all connected. Antidepressant use is not a short term event. It's an ongoing brain chemistry alteration that has semi permanent changes in brain function, cellular messaging and neurotransmitter production the longer you are on them. In short, it gives you a chemical imbalance and creates artificial brain states and distortions of consciousness. I actually made a video about it called <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiRvnfrs8UM" rel="nofollow">Meditation, spirituality and drug effects</a> perhaps you can weigh in your opinion. Frankly in my experience if you want to get to the heart of consciousness, perceive the mindstream and gain stillness then your mind must be clean. You can gain beginner level progress with relaxation and some mind slowing on many different kinds of drugs. I won't deny that is possible. However perceiving the real undistorted lens of consciousness is advanced meditation that is denied to those people on mind altering drugs of any kind, regardless. At some point in your meditation you must come face to face with why you are on (mind altering )drugs no matter the type and you must let go of that crutch for a bit to find the real you inside. If you manage to do that, in the case of the woman on SSRIs, if you find the real you sans the drugs, if you have some real stillness built up you may accidentally encounter your pure unmitigated consciousness. When that happens, you might fall in love with yourself and life and you will never be chronically depressed again. You will be depression resistant and you will never need drugs. The light of universal love and self awareness will sustain you. re: enlightenment and antidepressants.

Auntie S I have enjoyed reading your responses here. I have personal objections and bias about drugs and meditation experiences.

I have been on a variety of psychiatric meds as well as street drugs and enthoeogens.

I also subscribe to a multi dimensional aspect of being. Physical, energetic, emotional, mental, psychic, karmic, etc. etc

Due to my personal experiences with meditation and drug effects I can not ever recommend combining them really. Short term use, perhaps maybe. A muscle relaxant, a pain killer, perhaps maybe.

These drugs effect all layers of being. You can not tweak the physical without tweaking some aspect of the mental and emotional. It’s all connected.

Antidepressant use is not a short term event. It’s an ongoing brain chemistry alteration that has semi permanent changes in brain function, cellular messaging and neurotransmitter production the longer you are on them.

In short, it gives you a chemical imbalance and creates artificial brain states and distortions of consciousness.

I actually made a video about it called Meditation, spirituality and drug effects

perhaps you can weigh in your opinion.

Frankly in my experience if you want to get to the heart of consciousness, perceive the mindstream and gain stillness then your mind must be clean. You can gain beginner level progress with relaxation and some mind slowing on many different kinds of drugs. I won’t deny that is possible.

However perceiving the real undistorted lens of consciousness is advanced meditation that is denied to those people on mind altering drugs of any kind, regardless.

At some point in your meditation you must come face to face with why you are on (mind altering )drugs no matter the type and you must let go of that crutch for a bit to find the real you inside.

If you manage to do that, in the case of the woman on SSRIs, if you find the real you sans the drugs, if you have some real stillness built up you may accidentally encounter your pure unmitigated consciousness. When that happens, you might fall in love with yourself and life and you will never be chronically depressed again.

You will be depression resistant and you will never need drugs. The light of universal love and self awareness will sustain you.

]]> By: Auntie S http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/ask-suvanna/ask-auntie-suvanna-1/comment-page-1#comment-19650 Auntie S Thu, 08 May 2008 15:07:51 +0000 http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/ask-suvanna/ask-auntie-suvanna-1#comment-19650 Dear DSS, Please write to me (with more info please!) at auntiesuvanna@gmail.com Dear DSS,
Please write to me (with more info please!) at auntiesuvanna@gmail.com

]]> By: paulette http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/ask-suvanna/ask-auntie-suvanna-1/comment-page-1#comment-19241 paulette Sun, 04 May 2008 04:13:40 +0000 http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/ask-suvanna/ask-auntie-suvanna-1#comment-19241 Dear Auntie, I work in a very Christian environment and was happy to discover a co-worker sporting Buddhist memorabilia at her work site. I want to have a relationship with this woman because I believe we have a lot in common. At least spiritually. However, all my attempts to get to know more about her have been thwarted. She never reveals anything. Most of my co-workers don't like her. I'm starting to think she's a bit of a freak and I don't know if I should pursue this. Have any ideas? Desperately Seeking Sanity Dear Auntie, I work in a very Christian environment and was happy to discover a co-worker sporting Buddhist memorabilia at her work site. I want to have a relationship with this woman because I believe we have a lot in common. At least spiritually. However, all my attempts to get to know more about her have been thwarted. She never reveals anything. Most of my co-workers don’t like her. I’m starting to think she’s a bit of a freak and I don’t know if I should pursue this. Have any ideas?

Desperately Seeking Sanity

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