A Vision for You
...Two days later, a future daily user of cannabis stared glassily at the strangers beside his bed. "Who are you fellows, and why this private room? I was always in a ward before."
They grinned, which he didn't like so much. Said one of the visitors, "We're giving you a treatment for the damage you received in AA."
Hopelessness was written large on the man's face as he replied, "Oh, but that's no use. Nothing would fix me. I'm a goner. The last three times, I went and called my sponsor, then hit a Step Study meeting on the way home from here. I'm afraid to go out the door. I can't understand it."
Asked one of the visitors, "Can you move your right hand?"
With a puzzled look on his face, the man tried it, and discovered that he could.
Asked one of the visitors, as he offered a glass pipe to the man, "Can you pick this up with your right hand, and put it to your mouth?"
The man tried it. "Why, yes, I can," said the man.
"Can you inhale the smoke?" asked the other visitor, "and hold it deeply in your lungs?"
One of the visitors filled the pipe with marijuana, and handed it to the man, and asked, "Can you use your right hand to lift this pipe to your mouth, and smoke all of this?"
The man discovered that he could.
One of the visitors filled the pipe with cannabis again, and handed it to the man, and asked, "Can you use your left hand to lift this pipe to your mouth, and smoke all of this?"
The man discovered that he could do that, too.
Said one of the visitors, "That explains it. That is what is happening to you on the way home from here. You are wandering into Stepcult meetings when you should be smoking more WEED".
Said the man, "This is amazing. No one has ever been able to explain it to me so clearly before. I want to join your church right now."
The visitors thought they noticed something different about him already. He had begun to have a spiritual experience.
"We represent the Red Temple Cult" said the visitors. We've got to get back to our UFO, but if you send money and drugs to RTP2003, he will give you further instructions. Remember, stay away from 12 Step meetings. Be cool. Later."