Holistic Healing
Every religious and spiritual group known to man has burned herbs and incense. From the earliest recorded use of burning incense in India, some 2000 years BCE, to the burning of sage by the earliest Native American Indians, the wisdom of this tradition has been passed down from master to apprentice.
What wisdom, you may ask, is being passed down?
The great spiritual masters have always understood that emotional, psychic, and spiritual purification is possible when herbs are burned with clear intention. Perhaps during a ritual or liturgy, its primary purpose is to make an offering to a known deity.
Most importantly, however, it is burned as a means of communicating gratitude and thanksgiving. When we light incense or burn a smudge stick for the purpose of creating good, a "spiritual house cleaning" takes place. The smoke from the sage attaches itself to negative or (displaced) energy within the body, or the surrounding environment. As the smoke rises and dissipates, it draws away the displaced energy. Where the smoke goes nobody knows. It is my belief the smoke is absorbed into the spiritual realm and regenerated into something positive; like Love.
What wisdom, you may ask, is being passed down?
The great spiritual masters have always understood that emotional, psychic, and spiritual purification is possible when herbs are burned with clear intention. Perhaps during a ritual or liturgy, its primary purpose is to make an offering to a known deity.
Most importantly, however, it is burned as a means of communicating gratitude and thanksgiving. When we light incense or burn a smudge stick for the purpose of creating good, a "spiritual house cleaning" takes place. The smoke from the sage attaches itself to negative or (displaced) energy within the body, or the surrounding environment. As the smoke rises and dissipates, it draws away the displaced energy. Where the smoke goes nobody knows. It is my belief the smoke is absorbed into the spiritual realm and regenerated into something positive; like Love.