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Why do they call doing heroin riding the dragon?

Posted - May 27, 2019

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  • 5391
    Because “injecting poison” sounds so much less alluring. 
      May 27, 2019 5:13 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Yeah, well, there IS that point.  But look at K. James answer. I think you might like the reason.  
      May 27, 2019 12:11 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    Baba’s answer was good as well. 
      May 27, 2019 3:30 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    A very very addicting drug.
    A very powerful and transforming
    drug that immediately alters one's consciousness.
         Many many years ago
    When upon my first arrival in Delhi India, before
    I had been with any of my Spiritual Teachers
    I was staying at the Delhi Hotel,
    open rooms with many people sharing  each room.
    I wandered into a room with a few Thai guys
    sitting around smoking herb.Thsy invited me in
    and asked if I wanted to smoke some herb with heroin.
    Dumb me, knowing nothing about Heroin, I said sure...why not.
         Instantly It hit me, like someone pulling a shade to block out the sunshine,
    the drug literally swept over my vision like a tide coming in.
    I watched it come over my vision 
    like that shade coming down slowly. Such a powerful feeling
    of being above everything in a warm atmosphere of delusional
    ecstacy. I can't describe it, it totally was in control and I was a pawn in it's grip.
         AS the hours passed and i was laying in my room in a delusional fantasy,
    suddenly an overwhelming urge hit me and I had to have more. HAD TO
    have more. Every fiber of my being was desperately wanting more. It was 
    in control demanding that I fulfill it's desire to get back to that place
    where the drug had taken me.
         I went back to those Thai guys and asked for more. They literally kept me 
    from becoming an addict to Heroin. They said no because I would become addicted.
    I had never experienced being a pawn to such a drug. Eventually it wore completely 
    off and I was back to normal. Realizing what I had just gone through
    was the greatest lie, the greatest illusion that had taken control of me
    and was dictating me to get more, I finally had a great understanding
    of the perils of the drug.
         Thankfully, I realized that it was an experience  
    that I had been placed within for an understanding
    of that scene affecting consciousness so I could
    move on to my Spiritual Teachers that would open the door
    to that Absolute Truth which is beyond the Mind and the Ego.
         Literally I was taken to my first Teacher
    that opened the door to my understanding.
    And each different Spiritual Master that I was with in India, progressively 
    opened the door a little more for me to experience and understand
    the illusion of this world.
         When I think back on this,
    I was very very fortunate to not have been trapped
    into an addiction to Heroin. And realizing that I had divine
    guidance through all of this in this experience and taking 
    me to my Spiritual Masters in India...it's overwhelming.
    Blessings Be.
         

         

         

    This post was edited by Baba at May 27, 2019 1:01 PM MDT
      May 27, 2019 7:42 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    WOW>  WOWOWOWOOWOWOO

    wow.

    baba, that was more than you have said that I have read on here.  That was a great story too.  I never smoked heroin much less in that kind of dubious company.  They did save your life.  That is clear.  You co-created the path that you were meant to be on.  
    Also, doing drugs like that, caused me to see the lure of addiction.  It is not the high.  It is the ecstacy.  We want to get back to the garden.  We want GOD.  If I had not done the drugs I took, LSD, Peyote, Psylocibin and the like... I would never have even touched the idea of what GOD was.  So, they did serve a purpose.  The purpose was to know God and know that drugs would never take me there.  

    But they opened a door that I could understand.  
      May 27, 2019 12:18 PM MDT
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  • 1305
    It's referred to "Chasing the Dragon," in the UK, in reference to smoking it rather than injecting it.  They light a flame under a piece of foil and inhale the smoke from the heroin with a rolled up bill, chasing it around the foil. 
      May 27, 2019 11:53 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Thank you, K.  I just saw your avatar up on the home page and wondered how you were doing.  

    Anyway, of all the guesses I would have made I NEVER would have known this.  That is really fascinating to me.  Never knew.
      May 27, 2019 12:09 PM MDT
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  • 1305
    Well explaining it can help with the visual. I'm ok, in pain but ok.  I have another week with the fox trap, so I'm hoping I can capture them and get them treated :) This post was edited by kjames at May 27, 2019 3:29 PM MDT
      May 27, 2019 12:33 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    I have no idea what this means.  LOL  I hope the pain subsists.  I do not know the fox story.  I just know you are in pain and I have a very compassionate heart towards people in pain.  Here's to finding relief soon.  I pray for that for you.  
      May 27, 2019 12:36 PM MDT
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  • 1305

    Lol! Well yes I can see why my answer appears odd. Thank you for your prayers.

      May 27, 2019 2:03 PM MDT
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