I want to change
I want to quit smoking weed
You want to quit smoking weed. Maybe it started as ease, sleep, or a social habit. Now it is the thing you reach for when the day is loud, or when you want to feel anything else. That is craving plus a cue — not a mystery. This page speaks that way first. A Gnostic school later calls the same pattern an “intoxicant I.” You do not have to believe that on day one.
A first week in ordinary language
Tiny steps a regular person can do. No esoteric terms required. If stopping makes you unwell, talk to a clinician before you go further.
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Day 1 — Name the cue
When do you reach for it? After work, with a show, to sleep, with a person. Write the cue in one line. Seeing the trigger is the first honest work.
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Day 2 — Delay one session
Not forever. One time, wait twenty minutes. Drink water. Walk around the block. Notice whether the urge changes. That is information, not a personality test.
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Day 3 — Write the feeling you were avoiding
Boredom, social fear, a tight chest, nothing-to-do-with-the-evening. One sentence. You are not diagnosing yourself. You are looking.
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Day 4 — Sit for five minutes sober
If you are medically safe to sit, close the eyes. Breath is enough. When the mind offers the habit as a solution, notice the offer. Do not argue with it.
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Day 5 — Change one pairing
If weed lives next to a couch and a screen, take the screen to a table, or take a walk first. Smaller cue. Not a new identity.
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Day 6 — Tell one trusted person, or write it twice
Secrecy feeds the loop. One honest sentence to a friend — or twice in the notebook if speaking is too much.
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Day 7 — Rest and check your body
Sleep, mood, appetite can wobble when use drops. If you feel unsafe or very unwell, that is a medical conversation. This page is not that conversation.
Going deeper into Gnostic work
Practical Gnosis treats cannabis as one of several intoxicants that mimic spiritual experience while strengthening a mechanical “I.” Glorian’s Great Rebellion names marijuana among substances that produce hallucination, not awakening. The Dionysian Wave chapter and Introduction to Gnosis lesson eight set meditation against intoxication. Gnostic psychoanalysis is watching that I in the day and comprehending it in sitting. None of this is a detox. If you need medical or recovery care, get it. Then, if you still want this map, the links below are the credited stack — Glorian on archive.glorian.org for courses, Chicago Gnosis for lectures.
Tradition: Practical Gnosis. Credit stays with Glorian and Chicago Gnosis. Courses use archive.glorian.org. We do not send you to the closed shop.
Credited sources
Open the publisher’s page. We do not host the books or lectures. One room at a time is enough. Notes say what to read and when to stop.
Credited sources
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Drugs (The Great Rebellion) (opens in a new tab)
Chapter that names marijuana among intoxicants. Spiritual psychology — not clinical cannabis guidance.
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The Dionysian Wave (opens in a new tab)
Three Mountains chapter: marijuana and psychedelia as the antithesis of meditation.
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Introduction to Gnosis — Lesson Eight (opens in a new tab)
Meditation versus intoxication. Also discusses alcoholism; spiritual psychology, not a quit protocol.
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The Great Rebellion (opens in a new tab)
Parent book. Rebellion against inner defects, not against a doctor.
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Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology (opens in a new tab)
The many “I’s,” including the part that wants to numb out.
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Gnostic psychoanalysis, part 1 (opens in a new tab)
Observation method. Archive lecture.
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Gnostic psychoanalysis, part 2 (opens in a new tab)
Intoxicant egos and the same method. Not a withdrawal plan.
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Self-observation and self-remembering (opens in a new tab)
Watch the state just before the habit. Daytime work.
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Meditation Essentials (opens in a new tab)
Sit to comprehend the craving. Start at lesson one on the archive.
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Raja Yoga meditation path
Eight sequential limbs. Glorian’s series is the credited spine.
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Arcanum 14 — Temperance (opens in a new tab)
Measure as a symbol. Not a taper schedule.
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Liberate your true self (opens in a new tab)
Addiction examples inside ego-elimination talk. Illustrations, not outcome data.
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Spiritual perception (opens in a new tab)
Lecture on drugs, alcohol, and why this school does not use intoxicants for vision.
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Chicago Gnosis guided practices (opens in a new tab)
Relaxation and breath sittings as support — not a substitute for care.
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Beginning Here and Now (opens in a new tab)
Course cluster: first steps, psychoanalysis, self-observation. Use the archive URL.
What this site will not do
- No shame spiral. Observation is the method. Humiliation is not.
- No fake medical claims. We do not diagnose, detox, or cure. We do not replace recovery programs. We do not claim a 100% clinical success rate.
- No streaks or badges. Miss a day, write it, continue. There is no chain to break.
- No republishing books. Chapters and lectures stay with their publishers.
When you are ready
Three small rooms, in this order: a practice, today’s reading, then one lecture. Stopping after the first is still enough. The rest of the map will still be here.
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