The Spirit in the Smoke

Resins such as Frankincense and Myrrh have been revered for millennia as aids to spiritual connection, magickal workings, and health. Their smoke consecrates sacred space, gives spirits manifest form, and drives off illness and negative influence.

In our Alchemical lab, we’ve brought many resins through our Spagyric processing, creating Initiatic medicines to consecrate the inner temple and open consciousness for the workings of magick, meditation, and journeying.

In this lecture, I will explore the entheogenic chemistry of Frankincense and its enhancement of visionary states of connected bliss, and how Myrrh can help us integrate our most painful experiences, weaving together the light and dark within us.

I’ll share my experience with Mastic resin, which I have come to rely on as a powerful cleanser of inner and outer space for ritual, invocation, and ceremonial work. I will also talk about Amber, a fossil resin used in Traditional Chinese Medicine as a protective to personal energy and the spirit of the heart, which keeps us collected and coherent in all our journeys.

All of these insights come from from my own experience of immersion in each resin as we worked with it: burning it in our sacred space, ingesting the raw resin in preparation for the lab work, sitting with the extractions as they revealed their intelligences, and using the completed Spagyric Initiatic internally to draw all those experiences together within the temple of the self.

If you enjoyed this class, my lecture Frankincense & Myrrh is a deep dive into the many varieties of these two sacred resins.

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