"To visit new plains of reality, first visit your 'pharmacist'."
The Chemical Buddha had a different view of reality than some people. All right, let's make that most people. He didn't believe that much of what we experienced was actually real. Sure, it might seem real at the time, but our view of reality seemed to depend upon how we felt about things. So does that make it real? The Chemical Buddha believed that only by watching our emotions and thoughts like we'd watch TV or a movie (or better yet, a movie on TV) would we see reality. And he found the best way to feel like he was outside of himself was drugging his brain down to where it was only concerned with the basics like breathing, blinking, and keeping his heart beating. It was from this place of not thinking, that The Chemical Buddha believed we could experience the One (also called God by some.) But he would only trust his health to a trained pharmacist. Or someone who at least said he was a pharmacist. Or someone who once went to a pharmacy.
When in your life have you been able to be 'outside' of yourself?
Are you ruled by your thoughts and feelings or by reality? How do you know when you're in touch with reality?
About The Elvis of Enlightenment
- The Chemical Buddha
- Not much is known about The Chemical Buddha (as he preferred to be called) other than he was a crack baby with fetal alcohol syndrome born into a family of hippie hedonists. Throughout his life, The Chemical Buddha sought spiritual enlightenment through excess. To put it quite simply, he saw himself as the Elvis of Enlightenment. While still in his-mid twenties, The Chemical Buddha left this earthly plain for the last time while beer bonging chicken gravy and shooting heroin as he engaged in an orgy that included at least four members of the amphibian family. His last coherent words, before he asphyxiated on vomit that was not entirely his own, was “Nirvana. Choke! Gag! Cough!” Did The Chemical Buddha transcend his earthly bonds through his unorthodox lifestyle? Did he find the key to “Nirvana?” Or was he answering a music trivia question? Here is a collection of the thoughts, sayings, views and bathroom graffiti that has been attributed to The Chemical Buddha. Was he a mystic sent to show us the way or just another drugged out freak that incoherently babbled a few crude views about life? Decide for yourself. This blog of his teaching is maintained by his "monks."
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