justkirkers
Rising Star
Hi, I came to this website as i was looking for a book by Jonothan Ott entitled "Shamanic Snuffs or Entheogenic Errhines". One of your members, named Wira, had posted it (thanx!) I was searching this book because I have just started a tobacco cleansing treatment using an organic tobacco snuff. I am English but live in Santander, Colombia. It was shown to me by a yagé practitioner as a good way of cleansing my lungs and sinuses and also clearing my mind, since I have recently given up smoking cigarettes permanently and weed at least temporarily. The idea is that it will help me bring up and expell all the toxic residues that have been left in my system. He also told me it was good preparation for an upcoming yagé ceremony (my second only and first in 4 years). I thought you might be interested in how it is done.
It involves blowing a small amount of snuff up each nostril once or twice a day. You use a cut-off bendy plastic straw (I'm sure the indigenous people might use a natural tool like a reed but this is actually perfect for these purposes) with a few pinches of tobacco inside. One end goes in your mouth, the other in your nostril. You do not inhale it but simply blow, then add more snuff and do the other nostril, and let it sit there a while. The feeling is really intense! Your nose stings like crazy and feels very hot. Your head is infused with a warm glow, your eyes water and there is also a feeling of pressure in the top of your head. It is trippy in a sharpening of your senses kind of way, although obviously nothing like a dmt containing snuff. Last night was my first glow (ja ja that was a typo - I meant to write go) and as I looked at the moon it shone so brightly I could feel it penetrating my head in an uplifting and almost painful way. I listened to some trippy minimalist electro (Kschzt - The earth´s hum) and it sounded amazing. I had another go this morning and the effect was similar except with the sun replacing the moon. As I stood there facing the warm morning sun with my eyes closed, I felt an amazing warm and red glow throughout my body and mind. I know this happens when you face the morning sun anyway but the feeling was certainly heightened. These were unexpected pleasurable effects since I am doing it as a cleansing exercise and my intention is a medical and spiritual one (anyway who says spirituality can't be fun right?). Anyway I have been bringing up large amounts of dark, lumpy phlegm ever since the first hit (nice!), so it is definitely working in the medical sense too. I feel more clear-headed, I can see more clearly and as I look outside I have just realised it is very similar to the feeling I used to get for days after smoking 5meo-dmt, which I haven't done for a long time now. I feel rejunevated and inspired.
But here's an amusing but deeply sad irony: This region of Colombia is famous for it's commercial tobacco crop, which supplies the company Protobacco, bought by Phillip Morris 5 years ago. It is made into Mustang and Premier brand cigarettes and I have also been told it goes into Henry Winterman cigars. This commercial tobacco is grown by small farmers who then sell it to the big companies. The snuff I have been taking is from the same region, but is organically grown. However, as far as I am aware it is the same genus of tobacco. Since my favourite brand of cigarettes was Mustang, it seems I am using tobacco to cleanse myself from the same regional tobacco that I had been smoking ! What a clear demonstration of how the white man utterly misunderstood healing plants. They came here, discovered the healing plants coca and tobacco, and through their ignorance and greed, turned them into deadly toxins. Their first thoughts were. "Wow, these are powerful drugs. I can make a fortune!" The healing powers of these plants are largely unknown outside indigenous communities yet their bastard offspring, cigarrettes, cocaine and crack, continue to wreak havoc the world over. Incredible and, like I said, deeply sad.
It involves blowing a small amount of snuff up each nostril once or twice a day. You use a cut-off bendy plastic straw (I'm sure the indigenous people might use a natural tool like a reed but this is actually perfect for these purposes) with a few pinches of tobacco inside. One end goes in your mouth, the other in your nostril. You do not inhale it but simply blow, then add more snuff and do the other nostril, and let it sit there a while. The feeling is really intense! Your nose stings like crazy and feels very hot. Your head is infused with a warm glow, your eyes water and there is also a feeling of pressure in the top of your head. It is trippy in a sharpening of your senses kind of way, although obviously nothing like a dmt containing snuff. Last night was my first glow (ja ja that was a typo - I meant to write go) and as I looked at the moon it shone so brightly I could feel it penetrating my head in an uplifting and almost painful way. I listened to some trippy minimalist electro (Kschzt - The earth´s hum) and it sounded amazing. I had another go this morning and the effect was similar except with the sun replacing the moon. As I stood there facing the warm morning sun with my eyes closed, I felt an amazing warm and red glow throughout my body and mind. I know this happens when you face the morning sun anyway but the feeling was certainly heightened. These were unexpected pleasurable effects since I am doing it as a cleansing exercise and my intention is a medical and spiritual one (anyway who says spirituality can't be fun right?). Anyway I have been bringing up large amounts of dark, lumpy phlegm ever since the first hit (nice!), so it is definitely working in the medical sense too. I feel more clear-headed, I can see more clearly and as I look outside I have just realised it is very similar to the feeling I used to get for days after smoking 5meo-dmt, which I haven't done for a long time now. I feel rejunevated and inspired.
But here's an amusing but deeply sad irony: This region of Colombia is famous for it's commercial tobacco crop, which supplies the company Protobacco, bought by Phillip Morris 5 years ago. It is made into Mustang and Premier brand cigarettes and I have also been told it goes into Henry Winterman cigars. This commercial tobacco is grown by small farmers who then sell it to the big companies. The snuff I have been taking is from the same region, but is organically grown. However, as far as I am aware it is the same genus of tobacco. Since my favourite brand of cigarettes was Mustang, it seems I am using tobacco to cleanse myself from the same regional tobacco that I had been smoking ! What a clear demonstration of how the white man utterly misunderstood healing plants. They came here, discovered the healing plants coca and tobacco, and through their ignorance and greed, turned them into deadly toxins. Their first thoughts were. "Wow, these are powerful drugs. I can make a fortune!" The healing powers of these plants are largely unknown outside indigenous communities yet their bastard offspring, cigarrettes, cocaine and crack, continue to wreak havoc the world over. Incredible and, like I said, deeply sad.
