spiritual ganja

[PetFlora]

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......

Ah, I recently read a book about it. I love the Rockies. Actually climbed up to view Surprise Lake and the base of the Grand Teton. Hiking up along a creek, I kept wanting to stop and feel, but my friend lacked the connection, would not not let me

 

[Bob Green]

Escobar was talking about making Godbud hybrids. I would love to try Godbud crossed to his Blueberry, and C99 males. Godbud x Santa Maria fems sound worth a shot. Or maybe Godbud x Holy Princess, or Godbud x Blue Santa.

For flavor/smell alone UK Cheese x Godbud...

Any of you guys know if he still plans on doing any of these? Maybe ill shoot him a PM.

 

[idiit]

santa maria hybrids are on my mind.....

got to wait and see how these do:

god bud hybrids sound wonderful too.

from smoke reports on the sm hybrids it appears that sm translates desired attributes into its progeny well ( called a sport).

 

[Donn]

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.

I love this thread, and thought some stuff I read this morning might be interesting. Most of it is a chapter The Psychedelic Experience in The Unification of Science and Spirit, by Ben Goerzel who is loosely speaking I guess a mathematician. He explores it from various angles, from Schopenhauer's ideas about esthetic perception to his own LSD experience. A quote from a Zen master well known in the west:

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. ...

So I'm happy my state in the US has legalized cannabis, and looking forward to seeing lots of people discover this tool that can help open a window to that experience.

I am a little frustrated by the difficulty I have in talking about it, though, in a concise and unambiguous way. We can see some of that in this thread, where we're talking about personal insights and stuff that are wonderful - that's what we like to see - but not spiritual in any sense of the word.

But that term, "spiritual", is not really right either, because it evokes a kind of faith/skepticism dynamic that I think has little or nothing to do with what we're talking about. As we talk through it, that becomes clear enough, but frankly in my world I'll be "making a cold call", talking to people about ideas that may have never entered their brain before, and if I say "spiritual" I get crap about unicorns.

So that's one reason I like this thread, because some of you, satva in particular, can express these ideas so well.

 

[Donn]

And I love this thread because I like to try "strains" that work better.

Yesterday I sampled Durban Poison from a second grower, and am pleased to say it's different from the first Durban Poison I tried. I think they're both legit, but conditions and harvest no doubt very different. The first had very little signal from the body, and the mental effects were a little turbulent, sometimes dark, the only weed I have that has gone that way. The second is not a strong buzz, but it's still very noticeable and pleasurable, and the mental state was more serene. Still sort of stripped down - almost too "functional"? - but good.

In any case, I agree with someone earlier in the thread who didn't like Durban Poison for a "spiritual ganja" candidate, but I think we should say, someone who knows what he or she is going for, might do very well with it, and that's an interesting area of research, where I envy you guys with the green thumbs.

But what I hope we're also looking for is the one that opens the window, takes you gently to it and holds you there so you can see what we're talking about. The Elephant, that knows the way and will simply head off in the right direction without any worries, even if it won't likely carry you all the way up to where the eagles nest.

 

[Mr. Lovebuzzed]

i noticed that to make hash from some nice sativa is way to go ..

 

[satva]

hash from a nice sativa



Pictures of Destroyer ~~~
flowers, > to
course sift of a kitchen strainer,> to
180 micron screen, vaporize the sift for a nice clean high.

Double Jam thru Cannabiogen I recently read a note on spiritual effect.
Double Jam is Jamiacan Lambsbread x Jamiacan Blue Mountain

 

[Mr. Lovebuzzed]

it looks like proper mana, food for soul.. satva

i guess clear headed is the key.. it cant be narcotic and confusing types of hybrids... it has to be comfortable to some degree.. bluebery for example it is too dreamy imo, narcotic too although its very friendly to user..

i guess nepalese, nothern indian strains would be best for such hash...

 

[TanzanianMagic]

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?

I would say so. I think trippiest strains could be considered spiritual.

Tanzanian Magic
Malawi Gold
Thai
Indian weeds
Lambsbread

Basically, you trippy tropical sativas. However Tanzanian Magic is what people often describe Black African to be - very immersive, DMT type high. Thai weed always reminds you of pagodas and incense, and I'm sure it has a spiritual function too.