Field notes / Power & influence
War on consciousness
Also known as War on drugs / war on consciousness · War on consciousness
Belief / tradition
Meaning, context and sourced connections in the Great Awakening Map.
Locate on the interactive mapIn the map’s worldview
Esoteric interpretation
This motif treats access to altered consciousness as a question of personal and spiritual freedom. Hancock argues that privileging ordinary waking awareness can marginalize other kinds of experience; the poster adopts that critique as part of its awakening pathway. It is a philosophical position about exploration and authority, not proof that every altered state reveals an external hidden reality.
An interpretive reading of the poster and the sources below.
Sources for this interpretation · 2
- Creator’s original English V10 posterBelief / proponent source
Primary artwork showing War on consciousness; supports this reading of the map’s wording and setting, not factual verification of its claims.
- Graham Hancock: The War on Consciousness — advocate’s argumentBelief / proponent source
Hancock directly argues for altered-consciousness exploration as a matter of freedom.
Definition & background
The poster’s political and philosophical interpretation that drug prohibition restricts exploration of consciousness. The upper quote says the war on drugs is a war on consciousness. Graham Hancock’s essay advances this interpretation; the factual drug-policy topic has its own War on Drugs entry.
Evidence & research
This is a critical interpretation of drug policy, not an established finding that every restriction is motivated by one coordinated effort to suppress consciousness.
Reading the original
English upper quote: “The war on drugs is a war on consciousness.” English footer separately prints War on Drugs. The Russian adaptation shortens the footer to Drugs. The old drug-prohibition ID is retained for the upper interpretive quote, while war-on-drugs is the footer policy topic.
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- Creator’s original English V10 posterBelief / proponent source
- Graham Hancock: The War on Consciousness — advocate’s argumentBelief / proponent source
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Related topics
These relationships describe what the map and its cited sources say. A connection does not establish that a claim is true.
Claim made by the poster or its sources
War on Drugs
War on consciousness interprets drug prohibition as restriction of consciousness → War on Drugs
The original English upper quote explicitly equates the war on drugs with a war on consciousness; Hancock’s essay is a primary example of that political interpretation.
Sources for this connection
- Creator’s original English V10 posterBelief / proponent source
- Graham Hancock: The War on Consciousness — advocate’s argumentBelief / proponent source