As time went on I found myself partying more and more. I met all sorts of different kinds of people. Some die hard party people, who were only interested in drugs for the feeling, but I also met people who did drugs for the spiritual awakening they said they would have through the use of certain drugs; like weed, coke, mushrooms, acid and some more.
The most popular one was marijuana. People said they would definately reach higher levels of consciousness through the highs of such drug. Coke was said to produce the same effect but in a more rational way, not as intuitively as weed. Mushrooms and acid would take you through a trip of consciousness awakening, and could give you the infromation to understand your inner and outter world in a better way.
Anyhow all of this fascinated me in such a way, that it was a new fanatasy world for me. I picked up one of my fathers old books back in 1997, my parents had just separated and my younger sister, and party buddy, my mom, and I lived in an apartment in a really nice area in Bogota, I worked still as an english tecaher and lived walking distance from the place where I worked.
My sister and I read the Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary and we were fascinated. We loved the theories about traveling inside oneself to understand the self and deal with the subconcious, it was amazing how well we understood these very strange ideas but being that we had started using marijuana and felt some sort of spiritual awakening we definately felt some sort of affinity to this way of thinking.
While I was high on marijuana I felt very peaceful and with a sense of oneness with it all especially with people who were less fortunate than we were, and with people who could teach me new ways. It was really nice to see how my mentality changed from being arrogant to being and wanting to be humble and caring, being a better daughter, a better sister, a good friend and companion.
This all was a great new way of life for me, I started hiking with my sister in the mountains near Bogota. We took long hikes and always brought along weed sometimes coke, drinks and it was all good fun. We began to read about hinduism all on our own, we had first heard about it from our dad, but this was the first time we went at it alone. It was very inetersting to see that the things that we were reading as principles of a spiritual way of life were excatly what we were comming up with in our highs. It was quiet amazing for us at the young age of 21 and 16.
We started practicing meditation and reading more and more about spirituality. It was our new way of life and we were totally dedicated to it.
They say that depending on your own vibration you will attract people who vibrate at the same level as you do, well pretty soon we were surrounded by people who were interested in the same topic of spirituality, some of them did drugs like we did, some didn´t but our whole journey towards unity with other people interetsed in this way of life had just begun.
One of the principal chrachters is Ed, a friend I had met back in ´94 , he had married a friend of mine from back then. He is a very spitiual person, involved in many things related to that topic.
He had moved to Germany with his wife but his family lived in Bogota still so he would come to visit periodically and my younger sister, he and I would get together to discuss different things related to our lives and spirituality. Mind you our friend has never done drugs and well he wasn´t against it nor was he for it but he would insist on us doing it , going at it alone, without the use of psychotropics.
Eventually and because he proved to be a very insightful person, full of magnificent information, he became something like our guru, our master, our teacher. ( but we still did drugs) lol.
The most popular one was marijuana. People said they would definately reach higher levels of consciousness through the highs of such drug. Coke was said to produce the same effect but in a more rational way, not as intuitively as weed. Mushrooms and acid would take you through a trip of consciousness awakening, and could give you the infromation to understand your inner and outter world in a better way.
Anyhow all of this fascinated me in such a way, that it was a new fanatasy world for me. I picked up one of my fathers old books back in 1997, my parents had just separated and my younger sister, and party buddy, my mom, and I lived in an apartment in a really nice area in Bogota, I worked still as an english tecaher and lived walking distance from the place where I worked.
My sister and I read the Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary and we were fascinated. We loved the theories about traveling inside oneself to understand the self and deal with the subconcious, it was amazing how well we understood these very strange ideas but being that we had started using marijuana and felt some sort of spiritual awakening we definately felt some sort of affinity to this way of thinking.
While I was high on marijuana I felt very peaceful and with a sense of oneness with it all especially with people who were less fortunate than we were, and with people who could teach me new ways. It was really nice to see how my mentality changed from being arrogant to being and wanting to be humble and caring, being a better daughter, a better sister, a good friend and companion.
This all was a great new way of life for me, I started hiking with my sister in the mountains near Bogota. We took long hikes and always brought along weed sometimes coke, drinks and it was all good fun. We began to read about hinduism all on our own, we had first heard about it from our dad, but this was the first time we went at it alone. It was very inetersting to see that the things that we were reading as principles of a spiritual way of life were excatly what we were comming up with in our highs. It was quiet amazing for us at the young age of 21 and 16.
We started practicing meditation and reading more and more about spirituality. It was our new way of life and we were totally dedicated to it.
They say that depending on your own vibration you will attract people who vibrate at the same level as you do, well pretty soon we were surrounded by people who were interested in the same topic of spirituality, some of them did drugs like we did, some didn´t but our whole journey towards unity with other people interetsed in this way of life had just begun.
One of the principal chrachters is Ed, a friend I had met back in ´94 , he had married a friend of mine from back then. He is a very spitiual person, involved in many things related to that topic.
He had moved to Germany with his wife but his family lived in Bogota still so he would come to visit periodically and my younger sister, he and I would get together to discuss different things related to our lives and spirituality. Mind you our friend has never done drugs and well he wasn´t against it nor was he for it but he would insist on us doing it , going at it alone, without the use of psychotropics.
Eventually and because he proved to be a very insightful person, full of magnificent information, he became something like our guru, our master, our teacher. ( but we still did drugs) lol.
