Unlocking the FULL healing potential of cannabis
It’s been incredibly joyful and expansive to reconnect deeply with Indracana (Cannabis) this past month. Over the past few years I’ve been holding dietas with this miraculous plant but this year she has come in full force to make her presence and gifts felt. I’ll add here that Indracana is the name we call Cannabis. It’s the name she gave me and it’s stuck for us ever since.
There are a lot of misconceptions around this plant, mainly stemming from the collective reflection of our own shadow that comes about from her cultural use. From being the plant of choice for physicians and healers over the centuries, to being discarded by the medical mafia as the devil’s lettuce and relegated to a recreational relaxant for hippies in the 60s and 70s. Indracana went through a further indignity as she became part of a drug war that led to decades of abuse, as she became hybridised and whored for profit.
No longer a medicine so to speak but a means of escapism for recreational romps. Living outside the law, Indracana was dishonoured and disrobed to become something to be feared and ostracised from society. Often pinned and accused of causing schizophrenia along with other mental health issues that made the plant a danger to society.
As the century turned a renaissance of sorts occurred. The plant became more socially acceptable and her medical benefits were rediscovered. Legalisation began for both medical and recreational use which at first seems like a great idea, but has paved the way for a new industry in the mass production and sale of cannabis in many countries. New strains and hybridisations coming through everyday and more and more being grown in the pursuit of profit.
Working with cannabis to heal rather than escape
The imposition of our own shadow upon the plant is what causes all the gnarly reflections that cannabis is demonised for causing. I’ll try to explain further, as Indricana likes to speak to me in rhymes when she really wants a message to sink in.
The first rhyme she ever gave me was - “Here’s the deal, you use me to heal.”
Clarifying the intention of perhaps why this plant was seeded on earth. Of course people take cannabis recreationally to alleviate symptoms of society such as stress and anxiety. One could therefore argue that even recreational use fits into this mantra of healing. I’d agree with that but I’d also argue that it’s a very limited case use for what is possible with this plant.
The second rhyme was ‘- “Feet in the soil, face in the sun, that’s the way I like it done.”
This one feels super important and refers to how she’s grown. I had this experience when growing Indracana myself for the first time. As I watched the plants grow and sang to them a relationship formed where she was able to tell me what she did and didn’t need.
Quite often when Indracana is grown industrially it’s done under lights, in pots, in a factory warehouse. Which is pretty much to say the plant lives in a warehouse.
Imagine a human working all day in a warehouse with no natural light and how it affects their mood and their energy. Now imagine they don’t just work there, they live there, don’t get paid and never leave. Sadly I know this reality is true for humans in some parts of the world. For a plant that gets its sustenance from sunlight, water and the earth, it’s disastrous to its energy field.
Being in the soil outdoors, allows the plants to pick up the full spectrum of light from the sun and the frequencies and nutrients of the earth.
the true cost of a yield & profit relationship with cannabis
When flowering time was on the horizon I received all kinds of advice about chemical fertilisers to grow and boost the plants yield. So I asked her first what she thought.
“Oh, you want to whore me?” Was her response… “You want to force feed me so I can give you the maximum yield and profit possible?”
As I was growing the plants for personal and ceremonial use, this was the last thing I wanted the plant to feel.
It turned out she did indeed need nutrients and would benefit from them. A homemade mixture of comfrey and nettle being the preferred option.
It resulted in happy plants and beautiful flowers.
My point being that the way in which we consume and grow Indracana has a significant impact on the experience we have and her capacity to teach and heal. When done right there is a bliss vibration felt in every cell.
Indeed, pure oneness in every cell is a representation of the deity Shiva, the Vedic god whose mythology is closely related to cannabis. After drinking a poison that threatened to destroy the world, Shiva’s wife gave him Cannabis as a tonic to heal.
Whilst some scholars and gurus argue Shiva was a frequent cannabis user, others say Shiva is Cannabis in terms of a representation of his energy. Not intoxicated, Shiva is intoxication, the energy of inebriation as a path to liberation.
Indra, being another Hindu deity connected to Shiva bringing forth the name Indracana meaning Indra’s food. An old name that was more common in years BC and perhaps last commonly used around the tenth century.
Soma is also a word connected with this plant and it’s preparation, Soma being part of our name Sowa Soma. Which can be translated to ‘always inebriated whilst always fully alert’. No longer using the substance because you are the substance. Fully integrated.
And I really love that.
the importance of being In right relationship with cannabis
And so when grown right with love and respect the plant becomes a different entity altogether. No longer a mirror and exaggerator of our shadows but a light guiding us towards our fullest expression and potential.
Pure bliss in every cell, no longer searching for intoxication because we are intoxication. A frequency or a vibrational field that no longer needs substance because we are that substance.
I’ve been fortunate to work with a wild mountain grown indigenous plant during my latest adventures with Indracana. Never smoked, I only consume the oil allowing the full energy of the plant to connect with me, all compounds absorbed and integrated. This is important too and brings in the full healing power of the plant. Here’s the deal you use me to heal, remember.
I feel strongly about this and think smoking cannabis rather than consuming the oil is akin to snorting cocaine rather than chewing the Coca leaf. You don’t receive the full spectrum of the plant and instead consume a diminished shadow version.
Despite my strong personal feelings I wouldn’t say that smoking is totally without benefit. Nor do I judge those who smoke.
With the oil, the healing and the learning come very naturally, and in the most beautiful heart tuning, soul expanding ways. Turning over our shadows, our lies and bringing them to truth is an area Indracana excels in. Not tricky or sticky as some would suggest, for me this plant is a reflection with a guiding light if you are prepared to truly see yourself.
I feel committed to this plant, committed to playing my part in helping her return to a space where she is honoured, or he as the case may be. Who knows what projections we may place from our human perspective.
As part of that commitment we continue to guide social dietas and open our home space to longer isolation dietas with the plant and other ways of ceremonial use. Working with our local mountain strain we believe an authentic connection with this plant and its true energy is possible for everyone. Retreats and ways of working with this plant safely are also in the works. If you’re interested in working with Indracana and would like us to guide or support you in any way then please don’t hesitate to contact us.
The potential is incredible and I feel this plant has played a healing expansive role with humanity for time immemorial.
As she drops in her teachings I start to highlight biblical references with amusement. “Well, who do you think taught Yeshua?” Her only response.
With reports of Yeshua (Jesus Christ) going missing on his travels for most of his adult life, it becomes highly possible India may have been a destination for the man who cast out demons (epilepsy), and taught the blind to see (Glaucoma).
Many believing Cannabis was the main ingredient in the anointing oil he and his disciples used. After making Indracana oil by hand many times, I can indeed attest to the strength of it’s properties when transdermally absorbed.
As I write, with this talk of Jesus, and Indracana coming in strongly this year, someone asked me recently what my word for the year would be in 2025.
Miracle… miracle is my word for 2025 :)
Image Credit: Alex Grey Cannabis Sutra