I like this. I spent a great deal of time courting this awakening. I got rather good at it, but it couldn’t be alcohol always for me. I know exactly how much I need to get there, but there is a physical toll.
Also, it’s just nice to see positive talk about alcohol. It’s become such a rarity.
It didn’t start out that way. It was a purely accidental discovery, although, after I’d discovered it, I realized that the people around me had been doing so for a while. I never asked, and I believe it was something not understood by the rest of my circle.
I’d been a psychonaut for a long time prior. I can spot the spiritual level of a great number of substances and exercises.
I’d drank. I’d over-drank. I’d have a low percentage cocktail after work.
Then I started hanging out with a group of Irish musicians and their friends. I learned some tricks from them, and developed my own.
I loved that state of clarity, because inhibition had always held me down. Kept me from taking risks, even small ones.
I place high value on my ability to write, and I cannot do it from there. So, I eventually fell out of the crowd that made it so enjoyable. Staying in that place when I was alone just wasn’t the same, because I couldn’t write or type all that well.
Alcoholics say there's a Golden Moment between the second and third drinks -- halcyon and fleeting and gone by the third empty glass. Devotion to that moment 'em coming back for more. Jung's alchemical formula for recovery was "spiritus contra spiritus" -- it takes spirit to counter spirits. The trick is finding a more lasting and permanent source of that gold.
I like this. I spent a great deal of time courting this awakening. I got rather good at it, but it couldn’t be alcohol always for me. I know exactly how much I need to get there, but there is a physical toll.
Also, it’s just nice to see positive talk about alcohol. It’s become such a rarity.
Nice. You courted it purposely? Made a discipline out of it? If so, that really is a rarity.
It didn’t start out that way. It was a purely accidental discovery, although, after I’d discovered it, I realized that the people around me had been doing so for a while. I never asked, and I believe it was something not understood by the rest of my circle.
I’d been a psychonaut for a long time prior. I can spot the spiritual level of a great number of substances and exercises.
I’d drank. I’d over-drank. I’d have a low percentage cocktail after work.
Then I started hanging out with a group of Irish musicians and their friends. I learned some tricks from them, and developed my own.
I loved that state of clarity, because inhibition had always held me down. Kept me from taking risks, even small ones.
I place high value on my ability to write, and I cannot do it from there. So, I eventually fell out of the crowd that made it so enjoyable. Staying in that place when I was alone just wasn’t the same, because I couldn’t write or type all that well.
Alcoholics say there's a Golden Moment between the second and third drinks -- halcyon and fleeting and gone by the third empty glass. Devotion to that moment 'em coming back for more. Jung's alchemical formula for recovery was "spiritus contra spiritus" -- it takes spirit to counter spirits. The trick is finding a more lasting and permanent source of that gold.
Yes, and I think that's the secret to AA's success as well.