Reflections and Conversations with Santa Maria : Collection of Essays and
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Mother Suzanne Aubert
Pioneering women, responsible for bringing C4nn4bis S4tiva to Aotearoa. Courageously experimenting and sharing this plant medicine with the people.
Mother Aubert is one our Spirit Guides and a deep inspiration at the foundation of Motherose Herbals. We honour her work, her legacy as a female, herat-centered, rebel medical herbalist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qckWbE9eCuU&list=PLWTGiYQzs6dJaqiZFjjHlBvgO2EMFUwTQ&index=1&t=516s
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From Ash
https://zazenfitness.com/the-truth-about-santa-maria-sacred-cannabis/
For me the link between Sacred C4nn4bis and Spirituality is very simple. The C4nn4bis high can take you to a place of deep meditation and introspection. Leading you to ask deep questions about who you are and why you are doing what you are doing. Assisting you to seek deep clarity about your highest purpose here on Earth.
For some it’s purely physical but for others, like me it’s a way of connecting with the Divine.
Bob Marley said “When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself”
According to the Rastafarian religion, ganja (Cannabis) is celebrated as a sacred plant medicine that “reveals us to ourselves.” The youthful Rastas are the ones who integrate cannabis, because they’re getting to know themselves, whereas the elders are already self-aware. To them, using Cannabis to get high is condemned, because it is called the holy herb or the wisdom weed.
C4nn4bis is treated as a sacred plant medicine in another worldwide religion called Santo Daime, which is one of the Amazon Rainforest’s ayahuasca religions, incorporating elements of Christianity along with other spiritual traditions.
They refer to it as Santa Maria. Santa Maria is the Portuguese and Spanish term for Saint Mary, who is also understood as Mother Earth, or Pachamama.
When a shamanic leader named Padrinho Sebastião was first introduced to cannabis, he understood how to consecrate this herb, meeting “her” with firmness in the mind, relaxing into her peaceful and loving medicine. In doing this, Padrinho essentially lit a torch of inspiration that continues to pass forward as more people begin a relationship with this ancient spiritual ally.
We can all learn something from this. Like anything in life, there’s an art to it. There’s a refined way of doing it. There’s a way of respecting it, growing it cleanly, consuming it consciously, experiencing it tastefully, and sharing it lovingly. We are all aware of the gifts marijuana gives to us, from the ease we feel mentally to the uplift we feel emotionally, and I trust we can all imagine the blessing we can feel spiritually.
Santa Maria can help us all to see the world like children again, with tremendous curiosity and fascination.
Santa Maria can also help us to express ourselves artistically, like Bob Marley, Snoop Dogg and Pablo Picasso.
Santa Maria can help us to be more consciously aware, which makes us better able to serve others and stand for what we believe.
I envision a future world where our gardens flourish with all the herbs God gave us. I see myself, my family and my friends consecrating Santa Maria (Sacred C4nn4bis) for our health and wellbeing in body, heart, mind, soul, and Spirit.
We pray with this medicine, and we receive its gifts with gratitude. We smile together, we laugh together, we sing together, we dance together, and we grow together, in harmony.
And we do this responsibly and safely.
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"AZALLA” was the first written word for medical c4nn4bis in ancient Mesopotamia. It was written in cuneiform on clay tablets back in 3000 BC. “Azalla” gives us a reference for how long humans have known about the therapeutic use of the plant C4nn4bis sativa. It is likely that early humans were using this plant far before cuneiform writing was developed. From this perspective, the modern atrocity of cannabis prohibition is a short (albeit destructive) period of time.
Educational Resource from Azalla trust =
https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/1327317663/cannabis-education-handbook-digital?click_key=c5dea1ddafdff5cc967f749307306a64b43a9bd7%3A1327317663&click_sum=03b90458&ref=shop_home_active_1
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I love Ryan Spragues whakaro, he affirms much of what I have come to beleive about working with this Plant Medicine. He is a C4nn4bis educator, coach, teacher and cultivator - promoting holistic, concious & balanced relating to c4nn4bis.
Check him out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ6spIwgwac&list=PLWTGiYQzs6dJaqiZFjjHlBvgO2EMFUwTQ&index=2&t=1583s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qckWbE9eCuU&list=PLWTGiYQzs6dJaqiZFjjHlBvgO2EMFUwTQ&index=1&t=516s
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Why Santa Maria?
https://www.cannabisandspirituality.com/call-santa-maria/
A spiritual leader and plant medicine master—I’ll call him a shaman for this story—of great wisdom and vision was at the time of this seminal event living deep in the forest with his community. This was a man with a reputation for having an open communication channel with the Great Spirit, or Great Spirits. He was well known in his community and beyond for being a master journeyer with powerful “generating-the divine-within” medicine plants, in particular, with a legendary visionary brew of the region.
Word of this remarkable community began to spread and one day a young visitor showed up at the shaman’s forest encampment and offered him some c4nn4bis, a plant he had not previously known. The shaman accepted the offering and told the young man he would like to discover its characteristics privately.
The Keeper of the Garden
After spending some time alone with her, the shaman reported to his people that he had had a vision of a woman tending a garden. She showed him a c4nn4bis plant growing in her garden and said it was her plant. She told him that few people understood the plant and many were misusing it. She asked him to help correct that misunderstanding and let people know that when met with humility, respect, and a clear and simple presence of mind, her plant has remarkable gifts of healing and awakening for us humans wandering confused in the struggle-inducing illusions of our thought-generated virtual realities.
So then, why the name Santa Maria? Since the European people first invaded their ancestral lands and aggressively forced their Christian religious beliefs down the throats of the locals, native people all over the world have attempted to keep the essence of their traditional spiritual practices alive by incorporating elements of Christianity. That often meant using the language and the icons of Christianity.
The shaman of this story and his sylvan spiritual community were among those “syncretic religions.” He interpreted—or as the story suggests, actually experienced—the keeper of the garden as Saint Mary, or Santa Maria in the Portuguese and Spanish of the area. He also understood her as Mother Earth, or Pachamama.
That way of viewing and meeting Santa Maria has since been passed down to people like the group I know. A number of the core members of this group understand how to meet her with a relaxed discipline that opens the doorway to her peaceful and loving medicine. In doing that, they light a lamp of inspiration as we enter a period of renewal in our relationship with this ancient spiritual ally.
