ABC Radio National






Date/Time 13 Jul 2014 2:20:24am
*Because of space limitations, I am going to multipart my answer.*

You have asked a very important question that deserves serious consideration.

You could say the same thing about any minority group, be they gays, Jews, or whomever. Why can't they just do their thing in the shadows and not disturb everybody else with their demands to be treated like real people?

Here are just a few reasons:

Honesty, courage and integrity.

How can I be true to who I am if I am forced to lie to everyone around me about my beliefs and my spirituality?

I hated the insidious impact that all that lying and deception was having on me and decided that I would no longer scurry in the shadows like a cockroach. Rather, I would stand proud and proclaim that my spiritual practices and those of tens of thousands of Australians are just as valid, just as meaningful and just as worthy of respect and protection under the law as those of anybody else.


Now that I am a publicly declared "druggie" I wear the odium and stench of an entire underclass. Not only can I not obtain work as a counsellor, but I also cannot even complete my Masters in Psychology, as I would be de-registered for inappropriate conduct as soon as I became registered.

The hypocrisy of those who suck back on alcohol, while tarring others as useless, worthless and somehow corrupted because they use far safer substances is abhorrent. But the reality is that people's desperation to create an underclass of "druggies" and their own ignorant fear of the unknown has significant and detrimental impact on the way that they perceive and interact with people such as I.

This is intolerable. Sadly, there is no way back for people such as I. Having gone public, we can never take back what we have written, what we have said and what we have done (although despite all the sacrifices I don't think many of us would want to in any case).

We have no choice but to fight for our freedoms and to encourage as many others as we can to join us at the barricades. Failure on our part will condemn us to a half lived existence on the periphery of society, where we are denied the rights to spiritual and religious freedom so freely granted to everyone else.


The use of Transcendent Compounds is not for everybody, but it is also appropriate for a whole lot more people than those who currently are on this path. Many of us are motivated by a desire to help and a desire to gift to others the gifts that we have received. We seek to facilitate those people who are wanting to use these compounds to connect with the Divine
