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Ray Manzarek: 'The Doors Smoked Marijuana'
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6 June 2009 - Here’s a story about the beginning of The Doors from their keyboardist, Ray Manzarek.
So anyway, we smoked, The Doors smoked marijuana and we became the ultimate Christians, in that we realized that the dictates of the ‘Heart Master’ from Jerusalem 2000 years ago said, “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” and that’s the whole of the law will be, Love thy neighbor as thyself.
I don’t know whether or not he said, ‘Worship the Lord thy God with thy whole mind, thy whole heart and thy whole soul’ I mean it’s like, you are God in your whole mind, whole heart and whole soul. So that, I don’t know that you need to worship God but I think by just living your life, you are performing Godly activities that absolutely delight the energy that created all of us and the energy that we all are, in all things are.
What’s great about marijuana is that it opens the doors of perception and you can go beyond that into psychedelics and into LSD and mescaline and peyote and et al mushrooms. But the marijuana is just a, you know, first time I smoked it, it’s just absolutely great. I thought, ’Boy, is this stuff good. What is this? Wow!’
Music is like the purest example of the purest representation of that ‘marijuana high.’ Absolutely delightful, absolutely stunning, thrilling, the notes, the music, the sound of a base, jazz coming out of a foundation, just that base going boom, boom, boom and the vibrations of it.
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