Art, Nature & Sacred Sage

The Why Of Sacred Sage

Sacred sage was little thought of at the turn of the twentieth century. But the few decades that followed turned our familiar universe upside-down while highlighting conceptual vistas rarely dreamed of for centuries. During those early years of the last century the predominant Western view of how we fit into our universe underwent a sea change. A veritable avalanche of novel and surprising findings from an array of disciplines stunned the public and set even the most complacent citizens on edge. The world was no longer solid or simple; it could no longer be taken for granted or its paradigms filed away in the dusty drawer of common sense. While staid science was riven by quantum theory, relativity, and higher-dimensioned geometry, the art world took its first tentative steps into abstraction, plumbing phantasmagoric revelations from primordial archetypes. Many of the most original thinkers, like Arp, Kandinsky, and Klee became vivid articulators of society’s dawning vision. All agreed that the real processes of creation are the same in art and nature. Hitherto recondite topics like sacred sage suddenly began to acquire a new valence

New Science, New Lifestyle

So radical was this revised understanding that a century later we are still integrating it into our lifestyles. Scientific alchemy had changed our perspective. Vital components of this effort may be observed throughout the globe in ecological movements, New-Age thought, religious eclecticism, and burgeoning respect for traditional forms of Earth-centered spirituality. Both Lucky Six Farms and its land leaseholder Madre Grande Monastery have their roots in this expansive, radiant awareness.

Scents And Sensibility

The White Sage we organically cultivate is a direct product of Nature’s artistry. Taking our cue from her painstaking aesthetic, we craft our essential oils, hydrosols, smudge bundles and cones so that the original purity of the plant spirit is consistently retained and enhanced. As artists working hand-in-hand with Nature, we can confidently promulgate her energizing power even as we share her benevolent intent.

By Alan Beck

Alternate Paths

Style Expresses Your Personality

Style came into its own early in the last century. The famous modern painter Mondrian held that all artistic effort could be boiled down to a search for - or adroit use of - one’s personal style. A sturdy bucket turned upside-down makes a good stool, and many locks can be opened through adroit manipulation of a bobby pin. So what? Everything depends upon what you manage to do with the world you perceive. Clearly, the bottom-line in both spiritual and material worlds is always defined by results, even though these may be accomplished in unusual - or even stylish - ways. In fact, creativity itself is usually described as “thinking outside of the box.” Is your style original or slavish, cosmic or constricted?

Style Liberates Rather Than Limits

Style defines how we integrate into our belief systems, too. Since we understand concepts through unique sets of experience and sensibility, we can grasp the essence of ideas in ways totally new. Through the years, I have been amazed at the highly original uses some Lucky Six Farms customers have found for each and every one of our traditional White Sage products. For example, our larger smudge bundles have been successfully employed as wands for a variety of Wiccan and magickal ceremonies. Similarly, our proprietary-formula smudge cones and whole leaves have served quite well as potent adjuncts to banishing rituals. Experiments in Chaos Magick have utilized our hydrosols. Crystal balls, mirrors, and other divination tools may also be prepared via any one of our ultra-pure products prior to formal charging.

Our Style Is Universal

Lucky Six Farms and the lease-holder of its fields, Madre Grande Monastery, are firmly committed to an eclectic vision of humanity’s spirituality. Thus, we are always delighted to hear of new, unorthodox channels of insight and empowerment opened via our products. The pure, certified organic White Sage we lovingly cultivate is living testimony to the one sacred Earth we all share.  

By Alan Beck