Sacred Tobacco: A Misunderstood Magic Wand - Joylin Hall

awesome post thank you for sharing! Namaste:)

Thank you for this well written, well considered much needed reminder of a mostly forgotten perspective on the respectful and conscious use of our wonderful friends/resources -- love back as always:)

I didn't start smoking till I showed up in Japan, and I woke up from taking nap and went.. I need to smoke.

I went through some grinding of some really crappy energy I wanted to release and at first was using the smoking to enhance the feelings almost as a destructive type of manifestation, but I would always not like it and ask for guidance to remove it. One night I smoked and went to sleep and had a dream where I literally felt I was on the other side of the "matrix" and pulled down a selection menu on a computer screen... I selected Abundance.

I woke up... and I actually stopped smoking for 3 weeks, didn't even think about those other thoughts. Just last night I had the feeling to get another pack of American Spirits... smoked half of one. Then I ran into this page.

I truly feel this is legit info!

Kudos!

-Lord of A-san Japanese Fluency Lord

I agree with this, and I'm really happy to find this.

I am really into organic horticulture and gardening and have been trying to grow my own tobacco for a few years now, because I have pretty much your same perspective on this plant. Beautiful plant that grows strongly and spreads seed evereywhere ! I have though not really gotten to a smokeable leaf after harvest. Culturing/conditioning/aging your leaves really seems to be an art, whereby intention and effort is necessary. Commercial tobacco cheats this art, and bypasses it by chemically forcing some breakdown of the leaf and freeing of its gifts. That's just one aspect that contaminates industrial tobacco. I didn't know the detail about the chemical fertilizers, namely their radioactivity ! wow. But ya in comparison, organic soil culture leaves no trace (well, less trace, the world overall bears pollution). Through my experience with many different batches of Cannabis for example, I can really tell the qualitative differences in the flower as a result of cultivation methods. Flowers grown with synthetic, water-soluble fertilizers are not nearly as good... Using your language... the plant material does not "surrender" itself as well. The plant's development and synthesis of cells is different. Water-soluble synthetic fertilizers just skip any need for real ecology or living soil. The fertilizer is just sucked up by the roots and becomes present throughout the plant, thus supporting growth, but not via the usual pathways. abnormal growth occurs. In organic soil culture, legions of beneficial microbes and fungi are making familiar and appropriate forms of nutrients available and feeding them to the roots, literally. Nothing  extra gets "sucked up" into the plant that it isn't hungry for. Organic flowers unravel themselves to you more easily, combusting without trace. Like delicate vessels of spirit. The focus of the spirit's generation in cannabis culminating in the resin glands, which resolve themselves with even less physical trace... just volatizing into vapor.

About dense concrescence, or concentration of physical "hangups" in the body. My best smoking has occurred through fasting or approaching "energy-body". Toxic eating is part of the picture of complications with mainstream tobaccco use.

honestly some of the greatest medical effects ive experienced with tobacco was not in smoking, but ingesting a tea/soup/infusion of tobacco leaves. It is grueling and unsettling (and potentially lethal so approach carefully) but the aftermath was like "clear, fresh, renewed consciousness" mental health, clear spiritual vision. Basically i didn't sleep all night, stomach grumbling, tossing and turning, but when the sun rose, I wasnted to go out and walk around, and what "NEW" but familiar kind of feeling. Powerful medicine. Anti-parasitic also.

I love that you wrote and posted this. I feel like I could ramble on, and not really come to a clear point so I'll stop here.

There is so much misunderstanding and cognitive dissonance about important things like this that i wonder about some sabotage against humanity, or at least greed and manipulation.