spiritual ganja

satva said:

Yage is the common name for Ayahuasca, a Peruvian plant associated with Shaman healers.

Ayahuasca reportedly provides spiritual revelations about your purpose on Earth, or the true nature of the universe. Spiritual awakening is often described as becoming aware of higher spiritual dimensions, higher beings, a connection to the earth and in this case (Yage) example earth's higher energies thru plants / herbs.

Yaqui Indians from northwestern Mexico, used peyote to visit Mescalito a nature spirit. Psilocybin mushrooms have a history of use by South American native and Indians in religious, divination, and healing rituals. The key word is ritual. Cannabis is used in rituals or integrated into everyday life similar to don Juan's reference to "the smoke" used frequently - to connect to higher energies. Mediation, sacred rituals, hiking in wilderness, contemplation and so on... create similar connection to higher energies. Ritual implies invitation and invocation along with discipline - other methods are perhaps more natural.

We spend time hiking in the high country wilderness of Colorado. We often find small areas that radiate a wonderful spiritual energy, conducive to mediation. Many spiritual teachers note the high mountains, in general are often a resting place for spiritual energy. The energy of the mountains in California, is to me different than the energy of the high mountains in Colorado.

The late 1960's early 1970's in the USA was a time of spiritual awakening for America's youth. Some became wise and some became foolish, or banal.

My references to spiritual effect, assumes you have experienced spiritual awakening and on occasion wish to revisit spiritual consciousness from the view point of extending spirituality, as much as possible, in your daily life.

If you need to start at square one, then by all means - start at square one......

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satva said:

That sense of ah, when you walk outside on a spring day. Some (most) marijuana helps with that connection to "ah, its a beautiful spring day."

The next phase of spirituality might be feeling a connection to both your personal experience of spring and a higher presence. In a nutshell, that connection of feeling content, connected to your word and connected to a higher presence is one definition of spirituality. It should be an extension of your state of mind, presence, feeling good, and being high.

Its different for everybody, but for me too strong or heavy of a stone, too much energy in the high, raciness, trippyness, euphoria, weirdness, or too much thought provoking energy is distracting to that feeling of "ah its a warm spring day". Tripping is great for contemplation and seeing the world differently, but I never met too many people who could sit in meditation with a calm mind while tripping - too much going on, to sit quietly for a long period of time.

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ThichNhatHanh said:

The seed of mindfulness -- when manifested, has the capacity of being aware of what is happening in the present moment. If we take one peaceful, happy step and we know that we are taking a peaceful, happy step, mindfulness is present. Mindfulness is an important agent for our transformation and healing, but our seed of mindfulness has been buried under many layers of forgetfulness and pain for a long time. We are rarely aware that we have eyes that see clearly, a heart and a liver that function well, and a non-toothache. We live in forgetfulness, ignoring and crushing the precious elements of happiness that are already in us and around us. If we breathe in and out and see that the tree is there, alive and beautiful, the seed of our mindfulness will be watered, and it will grow stronger.....

Mindfulness makes things like our eyes, our heart, our non-toothache, the beautiful moon and the trees deeper and more beautiful. If we touch these wonderful things with mindfulness, they will reveal their full splendor. When we touch our pain with mindfulness, we will begin to transform it. ...

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Mr. Lovebuzzed said:

hello

we have medical marihuana, we have recreational marihuana... do we have spiritual kind? i mean are there strains which are not breed for medical purposes or relaxing, fun purposes, but breed for spiritual or sacred qualities, for mental development??? does this community even have concept of spiritual marihuana? if so, what is it?

your opinions?

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