Marijuana
damages your Shen, or Spirit, by depleting and drying out your Blood
and memory. It alters both the structure and function of your brain
and nervous system. Marijuana develops a parasitic relationship with
you. It creates Phlegm that ‘Mists’ your orifices, which
confuses and confounds your perceptions in an ever-degrading negative
feedback loop.
Shen means Spirit. Although we tend to think of Spirit as being something
abstract and intangible, for practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine
it is the exact opposite. Shen is your quality of presence, sincerity
and awareness. Each of your organs has its own Shen. Each of them combines
with the others to create your overall Shen. The presence of Shen is
critical for health. We consider any condition that lacks Shen or that
harms the Shen to be very serious.
Marijuana’s psychoactive nature puts a heavy strain on your Blood
and nervous systems because it pushes you to go into non-physical and
hyper-physical realms of perception. This taxes your Blood, because
your Blood does everything it can to support your normal perceptions.
Objective, clear perceptions come from a healthy and thriving Shen.
Marijuana’s Hot and Dry nature dries up the moistening and nourishing
qualities of your Blood. One of the functions of Blood according to
the theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine is to store memory. Marijuana’s
drying effect on your Blood is one reason it destroys your memory. The
end result of this drying is that your damaged and depleted Blood loses
its ability to nourish the normal functions of your organs. Lowered
organ function means less Shen. When your Blood loses its capacity to
nourish, your Shen has nowhere to reside.
Shen damage is the final product of burning out. You burn out because
of two things:
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- Getting high
has used up the nutritional basis in your body for getting high. This
happens long before the next stage, which is:
- Physical damage
to the body. Any activity you do has specific nutritional requirements.
Getting high is no exception. The more you partake of marijuana, the
heavier demand you will have for the substances your body needs to
get high. If those substances are no longer present in your Blood,
your body will begin to search for them from other places in your
body. As time goes on, your body will scour itself for all available
materials, which means that those same materials won’t be available
for your other normal physiological processes. The more you get high
while you’re in this phase, the more wear and tear you’ll
put on yourself.
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Shen
is the natural outcome of healthy organic functions. Whenever you compromise
yourself, your Shen becomes weakened. The more you compromise yourself,
the more your Shen becomes weakened. Marijuana consumes your Shen.
Each time you take marijuana, it digs a twisted groove a little bit deeper
into your body, the patterns of your nervous system and your psychology.
On a physical level, marijuana reduces the functions of your brain and
nervous system over time by poisoning them. It also harms them by pushing
them into territory that is not normally their own. This extended activity
drives them into a level of functioning that depletes and burns them out
over time. Marijuana depletes your brain and nervous system of vital fluids
and nutrition because of its Hot nature. It also deprives them by injuring
the mechanisms your organs would normally use to regenerate themselves.
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