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Against Tobacco in Spiritual Ceremony
Once upon a time, tobacco was sacred and highly respected; it grew wild and was a powerful ally. When an English sailor brought some to the royal table it was psychotropic, high strength, pure and unadulterated. It was not the shadow laced with poison that we have now. Today this herb is abused and controlled by the masons. They add up to six hundred chemicals to the ready rolled and to the hand rolling tobacco. These chemicals act directly on the fear node at the base of the brain. The effect is a hollow emptiness that hungers for more illusion. This is extremely profitable. Commercial activity causes untold millions of trees to be burnt to dry the raw tobacco because sun-drying wild herb is not profitable. Tobacco cannot properly be called a herb in this condition.
Today in Ireland a licence is required to grow tobacco, which means (when analysed) that we cannot get sustainable supplies of unadulterated tobacco. It is not just that the plant has been abused, but in the etheric realm it is the spirit or deva that is tortured by conscious humans and this is entirely for his or her own selfish gain. The power and love of this ally has retreated from spiritual interaction with humans. Tobacco never grew wild in Ireland anyway and It cannot be seen as sustainable in Eire if it does not grow wild here. We must feel the strength of this truth.
Transplanting foreign traditions into an abused culture does not seem right. The Catholic church has denied our native culture its full expression for nigh on 2,000 years and many Irish people who still go to church do so only out of fear. The English have violently tried to suppress our connection to Nature and Spirit for 900 years and we still have Irish people living today who can recall when Ireland was under the yoke of British Rule. Both the Church and the British tried to control us by imposing alien traditions and political domination upon us. Let us forgive but never forget these historical realities. This was aggression and it was always doomed to failure. It just took a long time but once again we are free and now we must take responsibility for our part in the submission.
We surprised the whole world by saying "No to Nice". In this stubborn survival there is a clue to our spiritual strength. We have survived them all because our race consciousness was carefully hidden in the shadows. Today we are beginning shine brightly again. We must go into our own cultural shadow and reclaim our birthright. We as a race have yet to recall fully the awareness of what it is to be completely free. It is because of our deep genetic desire to connect with Spirit through Sacred Ceremony we must all make a concerted and deliberate effort not to become Indians (dot or feather) but instead we must recreate anew our love rituals for our Mother Earth and Father Sky. We must also respect Nature and all existing true spiritual traditions as individual and special. Their Grandfathers are Our Ancestors
The land has a memory, as do the rocks, the stones and the crystals. We are Irish and pre-Celtic at our genetic roots and in this genetic memory we have a powerful ancestral connection to the Spirit of the "Shining Ones" that is much deeper than any archaeological reckoning. This is the People of the Goddess Danu and the God Dagda. We must be aware that in the full analysis, there is no past or future but in truth all exists right now. We have been blessed by many visits from Native Americans who have asked us not to try to replicate their culture. They have reminded us that no one ever really dies; it is only the body wears out.
All possibilities exist at the same point in time. What our friends called Grandfathers are in our land known as Ancestors and thousands of their Sacred Temples are to be found throughout Ireland. These temples are ours and it is here that we can meet with our ancestors. Let us ask our own indigenous herbalists which herb desires to be used today by us in our Sacred Ceremonies and listen carefully to what is being shared. Woodbine is a native power herb - it also grows wild in Ireland and would help people to return to a stronger connection to Nature. We should not be trying to go back in time or pretending to be foreigners but to re-establish a better now. Here and now.
Sin e, anseo anois.
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