Our Measure Of Truth

Science As Dogma Versus Science As Tool

Lamentably, post-modern society has narrowed its notion of truth to the proclamations of science. Although the font of scientific investigation has flooded us with innumerable benefits over the preceding three centuries, I contend that its dogmatic allocation of universal truth to itself alone - truth sorely needed for us to live fully - is misplaced at best and spurious at worst. How can I defend such a heretical view, a perspective which in today’s intellectual environment is regarded as the zenith of superstitious irrationality? To answer, let me briefly review the methodological purview acknowledged by science itself as the proverbial gold standard of truth.

The Inherent Limitations Of Science

Of necessity, science must confine its work solely to phenomena meeting two fundamental preconditions: 1. They must, at least in theory, be publicly replicable and verifiable, and 2. They must, as least potentially, be so orderly or regular as to be fully quantifiable. Any and all phenomena failing to meet both criteria are omitted from scientific consideration a priori. Now as we review the sum and substance of our lives as they are actually lived, that is the vast, colorful array of situations confronting us daily, how many of these subtle, mercurial, existential facets conform to that inflexible scientific template? How much of ourselves are publicly replicable and quantifiable? In fact, we quickly realize - as did virtually all pioneering scientists - that science is an ideal tool for researching certain exceptionally circumscribed areas of reality. Thus, it simply cannot generate, and was never conceived to stand in for, any comprehensive picture of the totality of our existence.

Science At Lucky Six Farms

We at Lucky Six Farms are pleased to use the findings of science but refuse to be used by them. Our philosophical horizons transcend the instruments we employ and the numbers they reveal; we know from ample testimony that our customers feel the same. Our wild-crafted, certified organic White Sage essential oil, hydrosol, smudge bundles, cones, and whole leaves are considered vital adjuncts of traditional ceremonies large and small, ceremonies honoring a universe much larger and more vital than one consisting wholly of, in Ken Wilber’s prescient words, nothing more than “frisky dirt.”


By Alan Beck

Desert Mindfulness

The Good, The Pure, The True

Our conception of ultimate good has always been closely aligned with that of absolute purity. And there are fewer places on Earth more thoroughly pure than the desert. Historically and mythically the desert is a special place: all mainstream Western faiths have found their origins there. Spend some days and nights in any desert and you’ll soon understand why! An almost unbearably intense clarity pervades land and sky, a luminosity redolent of divine things and holy epiphanies. Although little physical movement is evident, the air vibrates with palpable life. Since the dawn of civilization, mystics, saints, hermits, and truth-seekers have looked to the desert as a reliable haven wherein profound religious silence and spontaneous illumination could be experienced. Symbolically, deserts reflect the primordial condition of our deep mind when freed from obscuring idle chatter and kaleidoscopic delusion. In the desert we can easily focus our attention on our ever-present, still core - the wellspring of all that is good and true - which is a direct emanation of our Higher Self.

Good Comes From The Desert

Lucky Six Farms’ purifying White Sage, Salvia apiana, has always been an integral part of the southern California high desert. Native Americans have long seen it as embodying active purity itself. We cultivate it organically, deliberately rejecting petrochemicals or synthetic fertilizers so its growth is fully in accord with the energetic currents of nature. In addition, we insist that 100% of the processing and packaging of our products - essential oils, hydrosols, smudge bundles, cones, and whole leaves - takes place in the very same sacred environment. By wild-crafting and preparing the White Sage we deliberately engage its unique spirit, an intelligent energy that simultaneously calms the body while energizing the intellect.

Doing Good Through White Sage

Our daily interaction with both desert and White Sage thus becomes a true exercise in mindfulness and a tribute to the good residing in each and every heart. Plant, person, and place merge into One. By actively bringing that uniquely uplifting essence to the world via the Internet, we strive to further humanity’s progress and empower its highest ideals.

By Alan Beck

The Book of Nature

Science Pro And Con

Science has underscored the value of concrete experience. For that, we certainly owe it a profound debt of gratitude. What a pity, then, that its message for post-modern society has been distorted into a dogma of simple-minded materialism. Originally a tool to better understand definitive regularities of our universe, science gradually mutated into a doctrinaire, hidebound theology sans spirit that throttles fully as much creative thought as it encourages. Courageous geniuses who boldly blazed science’s trail over the course of centuries - often against hideous opposition - firmly rejected such narrow reductionist blinders. Bacon, Galileo, Cardan, Dee, Newton, Leibnitz, Gauss, Ramanujan and a thousand other luminaries of science and math lovingly embraced the numinous and openly sought guidance from the Divine.

What Has Science Wrought?

Patronizing pundits and the popular press never tire of excoriating those who question their reductionist line. Yet, a growing number of people from every walk of life understand there is indeed much more to life than what can be quantitatively weighed and instrumentally measured. Their respect for Nature’s innermost secrets may be well concealed today, but it has not been lost. Nor is their desire to actively probe phenomena for deeper truth. Experiment yields profound insight only when firmly guided by wisdom. Those who mistakenly believe they serve science by summary rejection of processes beyond linear mechanism do a great injustice to their own cause. At Lucky Six Farms, we work directly with the holistic wonder of Nature: it forges our everyday reality. And glowing testimonies from our clients and customers speak to the daily experimental verification of those eminently natural truths.

The Science Of The Psyche

Our products are not stamped out by the cold cookie-cutters of commercialized industry. Rather, they result from our reading the vibrant, living book of Nature, day by day, season by season, year by year. That is why our pure, energizing White Sage essential oils, hydrosols, smudge bundles, cones and whole leaves consistently bring people into harmony with both their external environments and their internal selves.

By Alan Beck

Odors of Sanctity

Forging A Ritual Of Purity

Why have Lucky Six Farms' organic, ultra-pure White Sage products been so consistently sought after for authentic Native American and other serious ritual purposes? Often imitated but never duplicated, Lucky Six Farms’ essential oil, hydrosol, smudge bundles, proprietary formula cones, and whole leaves have established a reputation for unsurpassed quality not only in the Southwest but throughout the entire world. We know that rare aromatics like White Sage have enjoyed a uniquely exalted status in virtually all of the world's diverse spiritual traditions. In particular, earth-centered faiths like Wicca have turned to Lucky Six Farms White Sage for ready purification of people, objects, places, and situations. Frequently, our ultra-pure products have been held to forge open, mediating channels between Heaven and Earth, clearly conveying heartfelt prayers to those Higher Powers most capable of lending assistance to the ritual.

Ritual Is Based On Purity Of Heart

While materialist paradigms may dismiss such ideas as naive, they neglect the true basis for such ancient wisdom. Ritual may be mocked as empty show by shallow reductionists today, but it was not so in the past. Ceremony was originally intended as a vehicle to intensely concentrate group thought and visualization. Humanity's moment-to-moment connection to sustaining and enlightening cosmic forces transcends sterile boundaries set by narrow, contrived protocols, but the strictures imposed by ceremony kept superfluous ideas well out of bounds. Above all: we are and always have been aware beings who create through deliberative choice. Mindless accident has never defined who we are or where we are going. Biographies - even of the most cynical reductionists! - invariably read like narratives rather than lab manuals.

Ritual Can Link Us To Truth

Saints, seers, and mystics of all stripes know Heaven's living powers remain ever-accessible to our psyches, but disadvantageous circumstance or destructive thought may block our path to those life-affirming resources. In fact, this is why unique aromatic plants such as White Sage have appeared to lend us a helping hand even via the simplest sincere ritual. Lucky Six Farms is proud to play a vital role in fostering this positive energetic process throughout the planet.

By Alan Beck