Notes: On Sobriety

To those who would teach sobriety.

To assume that the only truth or true consciousness can come from abstaining totally from altered states is an understandable mistake.

This assumption does not consider the fact that a human can never have complete sobriety. That is to say any kind of consistent stable state. 

Our sanity is a very precise solution and is never maintained, thus holding onto a thing which is so illusive, seems futile.

 This practice also negates the possible heightened experiences achieved through manipulating our consciousness.

It is a false idea that prolonged sobriety will allow you to obtain some kind of ‘super solid’ sense of reality. It may be true that practices such as meditation and exercise may bring upon clarity.Yet rather than being the vapor of abstinence they themselves bring a altered state just as with drugs.

 

 So rather than restricting these altered states completely, a practice of balance should be desired.