Business, Life & Spirituality

The Most Valuable Token Of Confidence

My confidence in the work my colleagues and I do is absolute. Yet, for ordinary intents and purposes, we simply operate a small business like millions of others. What sets us apart from the rest? Similarly, I am often asked how I can reconcile my work on behalf of - and enthusiasm for - Lucky Six Farms White Sage products with my lifelong commitment to spirituality. "Isn't business fundamentally selfish and materialistic? Aren't commercial sales at odds with the free energy flow of our infinite universe?" they inquire. Although I appreciate my interrogators' sincere concern, I have no trouble replying, because I believe their perspective has become inadvertently constricted. Let me tell you why: our confidence rests not with raw economic gain but rather upon assured mutual benefit.

Customer Confidence Supports Our Own

Business is really nothing more than mutual transaction: in the wide world of non-human nature it is termed "symbiosis." Our gut is filled with microorganisms living at our expense but also enabling healthy digestion. Wipe out those little critters, and your food can no longer provide vital nourishment. Similarly, lichens grow in the most inhospitable places - like bare rock faces - because they are an ancient combination of an algae and a fungus, two very disparate organisms. What one lichen component lacks, the other provides; neither could survive such harsh environments alone.

Harmony Yields Confidence

I could give innumerable other examples of how the entire web of planetary life depends upon such harmonious exchanges. Doesn't love itself imply that what one has can be readily offered for another's need? In reality, it is simply greed, the insistence on unfair, unilateral gain, that has given business a bad name in our time. Lucky Six Farms' mission is rooted in profound respect for its customers. We strive to give back to them even more than we receive in remuneration as the wholesome purity and consistency of our White Sage products amply testify.

By Alan Beck

Walk on the Grounds

 By Alan Beck

Confidence In The Earth

Each morning as I touch the soil, my confidence in our planet's holistic healing power increases. Every day I walk the grounds of Lucky Six Farms, marveling at its expansive, organic White Sage gardens. I especially enjoy working directly with White Sage and contemplating its venerable power. It is a privilege to maintain a personal relationship with its remarkably cleansing, energizing, and uplifting spirit. Such feelings reflect more than superficial sentiment. I believe our California White sage offers a truly unique array of useful gifts to those seeking paths of authentic betterment today. In particular, for those lacking confidence in themselves, their society, or their world, the White Sage provides a unique remedy.

White Sage Rewards Our Confidence

Virtually all societies acknowledge the vital role played by plants; this is especially true in communities where profound, earth-centered traditions have long been maintained. But no matter what our personal beliefs may be, plants proactively support our lives: our physical, intellectual, energetic, and even spiritual states are closely tied to the living plant life around us - so much so, in fact, that too many inadvertently take that wondrous bounty for granted. The confidence we place in the Earth as our home, our primordial support is most directly evinced through our trust in the plant life that serves us. Nowhere is this better illustrated then in the ancient respect indigenous peoples had for the plant we today call the California White Sage.

Confidence Is Rooted In The Plant Spirit

Native communities, in particular, viewed their daily relationship with White Sage as particularly vital. Through it, even stubborn negative energies could be cleared away in a relatively brief period. It was understood that White Sage was consistently allied with the community's highest and best goals, as the beneficial Sage Spirit worked to open each individual's heart energy to abundant flow. And abundant energy translates into self confidence. Nothing of this has changed over the centuries. Thus, White Sage can, even now, be an important adjunct to our heart's most authentic expression. No wonder this remarkable plant spirit has been sincerely venerated by so many for so long!