{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"#296 - Your Time is Now","description":"Humans have been walking upright for nearly 200 million years. The average life span of a Neanderthal was 32 years. The number of people that have existed over this course of time is, well, a shitload. And through all of that, you are here now. The fact that you are reading this now is proof. Yes, your imagination can do wonderous things but transcend the physical plane of time is not one of them. You have consciousness and you have the body to transport it through this reality, which means you pretty much have what we can assume almost every dead sentient being is no longer experiencing, which is life. There is no life in the past, it doesn\u2019t exist. There is no life in the future, it doesn\u2019t exist. What only exists is this moment right now. And you got it, friend. Mozart is not here now. He lived 32 years. Christ, John Smith, Nefertiti--their energy has manifested into other forms. Yet you still possess the core reactor, that spark that sets the heart pumping nutritious blood to every cell in your body. You are surrounded by skin. The entire thing moves at the will of your thoughts. Isn\u2019t it amazing? And a day will come when you will be gone, and time will roll for another 200 million years plus. You are armed with sensors--nose, ears, eyes, mouth, and skin\u2014everything necessary to flow through this one and only journey. Heaven? You mean there\u2019s something better? I\u2019m not convinced. So, let\u2019s apply our focus to what is tangible because time is precious. And that\u2019s waking up tomorrow after a healing rest for another unfolding day of breathing quality air. And while we\u2019re on the subject--you can\u2019t breathe without lungs. And Cannabis gives those sponges a good Rain-X coating of resin, which is good. Hey, Bob Marley did not die of lung disease. And if it didn\u2019t get him, it ain\u2019t gettin\u2019 nobody.   ","author_name":"Stoney Baloney | A Narrated Cannabis Column","author_url":"https:\/\/leafmagazines.com\/podcasts\/stoney-baloney\/","html":"