For many, the anointed savior has finally arrived, and it has come in the form of a pill.  This pill has given its faithful followers a perceived ability to rise above the challenges and competitiveness that envelopes most of those who seek to gain success in this modern materialistic world. The ability to resist it’s tempting appeal is a high order for those who believe they lack the means but have the reasons to outperform themselves and others around them.

The U.S. manufactured drug, Modafinil, marketed as Provigil (i.e. promotes vigilance) has earned a strong presence in the modern-day drug infused world, mainly through marketing and lobbying power by big pharma and by the sheer numbers of those who advocate its useful benefits that they claim far outweigh the negative side effects. The nootropic, that is claimed can make us “smarter”, clearer thinkers, focused, able to increase our working memory, capacity for thought, and maximize our problem solving skills has supporters claiming it is easy to obtain and safe to use, easily self administered.

The drug Modafinil has a string of common brand names Modafinil is sold under such labels as Nuvigil, Armodafinil, Alertec, Modavigil and Provigil to list some of them. This “Viagra for the brain” has been around for well over a decade as an approved FDA drug. Modafinil is a vigilance promoting drug or wakefulness promoting drug that was first approved for treatment of the wakefulness disorder of narcolepsy, a mysterious condition of the brain that causes someone to suddenly fall asleep. Within five years of its initial approval it was being approved for “shift work sleep disorder” and “excessive daytime sleepiness” associated with obstructive sleep apnea; a typical move by the hugely profitable pharmaceutical companies that want to capitalize in every imaginable way on a new drug.

If ever there has been a period for mankind needing a prescription these days are proving to be that time. God has had the answer for all our ills, spiritual and emotional, in the man Jesus Christ. Jesus is the doctor who specializes in everything, the great physician and healer yet, as prophecy has already declared, this is not a message that will ever be widely embraced in the world; on the contrary God’s Word tells us few will find this Way and many will be deceived by drugs and all the obscure sorcery that surrounds it.

Some would claim that the mind drug Modafinil is the miracle drug for the 21st century. Self-administering off label use of Modafinil has been steadily rising over the last decade among those who hope to get an advantageous edge above others by sharpening their thinking through the benefits of mind doping. Corporate leaders, college students, professionals of all kinds, athletes, artists, wall streeters, professional poker players and even multitasking homemakers and parents can be found using this drug as their cognitive enhancer.

Modafinil is used by aircrew of all three U.S. military services and militaries of several countries for keeping pilots and troops on mission task when sleep deprived.  One could be hard pressed to find an overwhelming amount of published information that would sway anyone who is considering starting their own program of self medication with Modafinil not to do it. 

Experts claim the precise mechanism(s) through which Modafinil promotes wakefulness is not yet fully understood and the drug is not the same as most stimulants, like cocaine and amphetamine. Users claim they do not have the same physiological effects experienced with taking speed and many stop and start use for extended periods without a sense of addiction. Though the original intended use for Modafinil was to treat Narcolepsy the big deception surrounding the drug now is to self-medicate one’s own healthy brain.

LOTS OF SIDE EFFECTS THOUGH
This deception lies in the plethora of success testimonials that are scattered all over the internet through pharmaceutical advertisements, forum threads and personal blogs. Many are scooping up this drug without prescriptions through internet sales of companies who ship from Europe and India.  Even though Modafinil, like most mind drugs, has a long list of possible common side effects (back pain, drowsiness, headache, nausea, nervousness, stuffy nose, diarrhea, anxiety, dizziness, upset stomach, trouble sleeping) and possible serious side effects (serious rash, serious allergic reaction involving the liver or blood cells, hives, mouth sores, blistering or peeling skin, swelling of the face, eyes, lips, tongue, legs, or throat, trouble swallowing or breathing, fever and shortness of breath) many folks are taking the gamble that they won’t become victims of Modafinil’s darker side.

So does God’s word say anything about drugs? It say’s that men will be deceived by all that encompasses drugs through putting their faith and trust in magic pills as well as not putting their faith and trust in God.

“And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
   Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.” Rev. 9:20-21 KJV and in Revelation 18:23 God tells us …by thy sorceries were all
nations deceived.

The KJV uses the words sorceries in these texts from the Greek word Pharmakeia meaning PHARMACY, medication, drugs, sorcery, witchcraft, and or, magic. All things that are mysterious pseudo spiritual stuff. The fact that deception is involved is key to letting one know they should be wary and on guard.

These are tricky times we live in, if anyone is depending on their own reasonable good judgements to keep them safe, then through arrogant confidence, they are placing another form of deception on their own head. Drugs are themselves at the helm of spiritual forces which labor hard behind the mounting drug influence which confronts the whole earth today. The spiritual drug lords would love to talk anyone of us into believing we’re better off drugged.

The growth and popularity of a drug like Modafinil being used among a generally physically healthy but very competitive society for the use of gaining that “edge” above others is a fulfillment of the sorceries that are deceiving mankind all over the world.