Words as Drugs

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 "Religion is the Opiate of the Masses"

-Carl Marx

If that is the case, it is important to recognize that all religions are constituted primarily by words, language, symbols, and the meaning these convey. So are all systems that would fall under the umbrella of ideologies and belief systems. 


If you think about it, words kind of have to affect brain chemistry. Logically, if you think about it, words that you read or hear have to be processed by your brain in the same way any information is, and that is all chemical and neurological.


Words can affect emotion and "break hearts" which is a chemical reaction in the mind and body. Words give directions, label systems and their parts, and define our experiences and feelings and priorities. They affect and significantly determine how we interact and influence our internal and external reality. 

Since words can affect brain chemistry and reality so significantly, they can often be compared to the effects of drugs. They can change mood, change imagination, change creativity, and influence understanding to where a mind could process and comprehend high levels of reality.

I have often joked that religion and philosophy was my "drug of choice." I'm not so sure its as much of a joke as a statement of truth. These advanced belief systems are constituted by words, and they can have druglike qualities similar to chemical drugs, like changing our imaginations and mind's eye and changing our moods and perceptions. 

They can treat and sometimes even cure diseases of the mind and spirit (or cause them.)

Religions and belief systems can act like psychological steroids and give you the same liquid courage 5 shots of whiskey can on a saturday night. They can eradicate your fear of death and your insecurities, and they can give you insight into reality better than some psychadelics.

They can give you euphorias and highs that are transcendent and otherworldly, changing your entire sense of reality.

All of this is done through and constituted by words and meaning.


Words are my drug of choice

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