Great tits cope well with warming
...but they look much better in the cold.

This is unfortunate, it always saddens me to see this amazing, healing plant used this way. It doesn't help the legality of the plant, it doesn't get the plant to people who might benefit from it, and it doesn't help the cause of the spiritual use of plants in general.

Traditionally, Salvia divinorum is not smoked at all- it's chewed or made into a tea. In my own work with the raw plant and the extracts I create, I have learned more about nature and my place in it from this plant than from any other spiritual work I have done. This has been the case with many, many people who have worked with my Salvia divinorum extract as well, including many who had bad experiences from smoking it.

In fact, most every bad experience that I have heard of or been told about has resulted from smoking the plant or a concentrated extract. When used orally, as with leaves or a sublingual extract, Salvia divinorum is a gentle, profound teacher with much wisdom that the earth would benefit from our receiving.

I encourage the seekers I work with to look into more respectful use of this amazing plant, and to think of all the sacred plants as allies and friends to help you in your own work- rather than drugs that force you into a trip you have no control over.

-leavesofjoy
www.veriditas.com

Rhodiola is truly amazing stuff. When I moved from Arizona to Oregon 8 years ago, the winter blues were awful. After some herbal sleuthing, I found Rhodiola and gave the tea a try, and it was like night and day for my mood, energy levels, and mental function.

I added it to the regular line of herbal extracts I make, and many more people have been helped by it; it seems to work in a totally different way than St John's Wort, and better, also, since it also adds tonic and adaptogenic properties. I'm really glad to see it getting some attention, since it was such a gift to my health!

leavesofjoy
http://www.al-qemi.com/store/

I thought this was a great new service, too, until I spent 15 minutes searching the site in vain to find what the subscription price is and what you get for that price. And beware- in clicking around trying to find this info, I apparently signed up for the service (and its $19.99 monthly fee) without any type of notice, confirmation, or verification that I wished to sign up.

I'm generally a huge fan of e-music, but this felt like a tricky ambush move on their part!