cannabis fitness
cannabis medicine
What is the mark of a healthy mind? What does a healthy mind look like? What does a healthy mind do? Is a healthy mind a certain fixed state to be had, as in attaining some everlasting state of bliss or happiness? Or is a healthy mind something more dynamic, like a system, a system that must keep moving to keep operating; indeed, a system that must remain open and off equilibrium in order to keep growing and adapting?
As it was in our indigenous past, might the human pursuit of altered states of consciousness in modern times be an effort to throw the mind-system open and off-balance, especially when long-established habitual ways threaten to destroy us? Perhaps the demands of life and survival are simply too great to be met with any one particular mental state or way of seeing/doing things. So too, as we find in the opioid and speed epidemics, a person or populace overly occupied at either/both extreme/s of these two mind-body states--one highly closed and active, the other highly open and receptive--is maladaptive as well and could use some moderation. More...
