The Humm of the Plants
The other day I happened to find this huge Shiva Lingam stone at Goodwill and have spent an awful lot of time holding it in my hands pondering dualities and balance and the like. I marvel at how different the stone’s energy feels in my left hand compared to my right and with all of this I keep coming back to my truffles and these plants I am using in them.
I put a truffle in my left hand, then in my right expecting something similar, but it felt the same. I held the truffle gently with both hands and placed it in front of my heart and then in front of my forehead...
Leveling Up
Try to at least temporarily let go of everything you may have already learned about a particular plant and its attributes and any other preconceived ideas about it, no matter how common the ideas may seem to be, before eating one of these truffles.
Preconceived beliefs and mindsets tend to confine potential experiences to fit into the parameters that accompany those beliefs and mindsets.
Out of the Shadows
My own thinking is that these sacred plants I grow and use, with nightshades in particular, are really no different than growing pretty much any other plant, even to the extent that most of them grow prolifically in their natural habitats.
If you are called to add ceremony and ritual to your technique, then let the plant guide you and your connection with the plant will be all the stronger for it but to me, that should be between you and the plant.
Ethical Ingredients
Ethical Ingredients. At Emporium Black, it is of utmost importance that we use ethically-sourced ingredients whenever available. Of course, chocolate is one of our primary ingredients, and we are proud to use fair-trade Callebaut chocolate in our truffles. The fair-trade designation means that the cocoa producers receive ethical, sustainable compensation for their labor and production.
Magic Boxes as Ceremony
A sequence of photos showing the process of gathering the seeds from an Egyptian Henbane seedpod. I will never get over how adorable the whole setup is, with that delicate lid that has to be removed using the old dried flower for a handle to do so.
These plants can create powerful spiritual alliances with all of us and the details and interactions we have can be very different from one another.
In that way, to me, these plants are of the Fae & I delight at being able to participate in ceremonies of the Fae.
This is my truth (Part Two)
Our Elders Who Guide Us. Likewise, in later dreams it kept coming. The plants help us with shadow work by helping us see how to undo our shadows and how to break free of them. I know this to be true. They are not some stoic tool only to see our ugliest truths and then we have to uncomfortably chew on those truths for days while we struggle to find our way free of them. We need to make sure we are not blocking the healing because…
Making Our Journeys Our Own
Sacred, consciousness-altering plants have played a role in indigenous rituals & ceremonies around the globe for centuries. From continent to continent, plants have held different meanings for those who use them. At Emporium Black, we honor these sacred plants and their role in personal and communal journeys of healing and exploration through creating delicious truffles. Our gourmet chocolate truffles offer a gentle way to ingest sacred plants without causing hallucinations or an overwhelming experience.
Between the Heartbeats
These plants can teach us and show us things that we don't even know exist, more or less know what we need or would like to learn how to do. Peyote was the same. One cool trick it showed me many years ago that I still love is something I think a lot of customers would like trying with our nightshade truffles
Awakening Possibilities & Potential
There is quite a bit of stigma and bad press about datura seeds. In the beginning I avoided using the seeds in my truffles because I had a fear they would somehow lead to bad experiences...well given everything I had read, it seemed reasonable to think that may be true. One day the plants gave me some new insight that shifted my thinking and took away my fears. Seed pods are the potential for countless as of yet unexpressed lives. Each seed holds the potential for
Plants’ Role in Shadow Work
I would not be such a huge advocate for these plants and or even put them in truffles to sell to the public if they were going to make you look at some dark and heavy shit about yourself without the simultaneous helpful insights that show you the road to healing, growth, and a productive new sense of awareness. I would not be such a huge advocate for these plants or even put them in truffles for general use if I believed they might stir up uncomfortable feelings and insights that leave anyone feeling overwhelmed and/or exposed with no sense of resolution. These plants (and these truffles) will not leave you hanging.
Trusting Your Own Medicine
It can be tricky being amongst so many practitioners who come from completely different traditions than my own. It ultimately makes me stronger in my own medicine but a lot of what makes that happen is accepting how different my own walk is and to not try to conform or question my ways because everyone else suddenly does things a different way and many sound pretty sure that that is the way something should be done.
This is My Truth~ Dreaming of Sacred Plants
I had numerous dreams about these plants last night and they were all about the same theme. It was a theme I was supposed to remember and share.