envisioning, is mind
drugs affect mind
mind is never the Inner Authority

it is just (another) manipulation.
HD teaches us, to be the passenger of the life we have. As ourselves.

I used copious amounts of drugs (weed/hash, lots of lsd, speed/cocaine), for many years, and it had its ‘function’ but also seeing now, what a huge not-self influence it was. What a trip my ego/mind was on, leading the way and using those drugs to help get me there, or alter what was happening.

comfort zone is an ego/mind story, it is the psyche. HD deals with the mechanics, which, living it, can have serious psychological repercussions/effects, but they are 2 very separate avenues.

Taking drugs, and especially regularly, to me now, is trying to be the driver, manipulating the vehicle’s trajectory, pretending to be the passenger yet oblivious to that which already is, yet that the experiences can be altered and steered and that everything which is experienced (mind blown) during intoxication, is the life.

The new Driver (idiot passenger taking the wheel) then is often not even inside the vehicle anymore, the connection is broken. There then is a lot of thinking (as if) and even doing, but not being. It’s ignorant escapism.