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Prayer Blend of Mediterranean Oils for Peace in the Middle East
We know that prayer works and We know that plants have consciousness.
Above all, Humanity desires Peace.
Plants and mycelia are calling us to stop our destructive, violent ways.
Together, humanity, plants and mycelia are dreaming new paths of peace.
“It feels too dense, too heavy and the pain is overwhelming.
Generational trauma and child sacrifice for ideas and profit curdle our blood.
What if plants that were at the beginning of this story and have seen it all could hold our prayers like a chalice of aroma? What if we can connect with the land and the Great Cedars of Lebanon through complex microbial and chemical synthesis?
The same plants that thrive wild around our distillery in the North Western Mediterranean basin grow in the Holy Lands. They inhabit the same unforgiving alkaline soils of the South Eastern side of the water mass.
Please welcome in your hearts the divine presences of Mastic, Sweet Fennel, Aleppo Pine and Olive as we pray for Peace and activate the Sacred Lebanon Cedars.”
The base of this blend for peace is the essential oil of Mastic leaves and fruits. Mastic (Pistacia lentiscus) is a resilient shrub found growing between wild Olives and Fennel in every verge and path. It creates the essential lower canopy of the Aleppo Pine forests that blanket the hills of the Mediterranean basin. It brings sanctuary and sanctity, transforming the mundane into the sacred. It marries Yin and Yang, Earth and Heavens in an expansive state of peace, balance and clarity.
The middle note is Sweet Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare, var. dulce), the first plant to grow invasively in ‘no-man’s land; where all hope is destroyed, fennel shoots funnel into the hard, dry, baked soil and burst upwards in delicate yellow stars, 2m above the ground. A spiritual protector of evil and related to fertility and the menstrual cycle, we invite Fennel to protect the people and land and to bring vigorous fertility once again to the dust and desperation in people’s hearts and psychic gardens.
The top note is Aleppo Pine, (Pinus halipensis).
“Mine is the Pine
whose air trembles
through fragmented hands.
Regenerative sap
claps
ecstatically over me.”
Also known as White Pine by local Catalans, curiously the name coincides with the ‘White Pine, Tree of Peace’ of the Iroquois Native peoples, Keepers of the Eastern Door in what is now known as the USA. We respectfully apply the synchronicity of meaning to Pinus halipensis. We also invoke the power of being vertical, of being human, of draining our dense thoughts and emotions into the ground in order to open ourselves to the sensuality of life, in all its beauty, colour, flavour, inspiration and sensation. We celebrate our human-ness in deep connection with our plant ancestors and call for Serene Joy and Joyful Serenity to the land, peoples and plants of the Holy Lands.
And finally, for our anointing, our sacred oils are held in the warm cradle of Olive. The Jewish and Christian tree of Peace. A wild Olive appears as a silvery pompom shining in the sun, attracting murmurations of Starlings at this time of year. It is the consciousness of ONE. We are all not merely interconnected, but embody each other – we each embody the inner tyrant, the tortured victim and the running child. We ARE this war. The war is within US. We are also light, love and pure consciousness. We ask Olive and her bitter black fruits to bathe us in her golden warmth, connect us to these sacred oils and the divine Cedars of Lebanon. We invite the Rainbow and the Dove; Innocence and Hope to shine within us, to beam from us as we pray together.
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