Recently, I facilitated such ceremony in California. We opened the ceremony by smoking a hybrid flower using my ceremonial pipe. This is a special pipe that I use only during cannabis ceremonies. After the first round I passed out several Weedgets pipes so that the attendees could be in charge of their cannabis consumption throughout the evening. People react differently to cannabis, so some need to smoke more than others. I prefer to use flower in a ceremony setting because the spirit of the plant seems to be strongest in a flower. I source my flowers from growers I personally know because the energy of the grower will directly impact the energy of the flower. Prior to discovering Weedgets, I also offered vape pens and edibles as some people had problems inhaling the harsh smoke. With Weedgets, the need for vape pens and edibles during ceremony went down significantly. 

Halfway into the evening, as everyone was deep into the medicine, one of the attendees called me over. She said she is completely sober, experiencing zero effects of the medicine and is bored. By that time, she had smoked quite a bit and sufficient time had passed for the effects to take place.

She went through the process we sometimes call “soul retrieval.” Soul retrieval is a healing practices to restore lost life force. This loss of life force (also known as soul loss) often happens when we suffer a trauma or a loss. This is a protective response that takes place so that we can survive and go on. The problem with that is that even though we continue living our lives, we are not whole and are not fully present. This low life force generally shows up as anxiety, lack of energy and disease, most often one that effects our immune system.

“Thank you,” she said the next day. “After we talked I could feel you next to me the entire evening. I kept thinking you were sitting to my right. But every time I looked, you were across the room in your own seat. I even felt you holding my hand, yet your physical body was six feet away from me. Every time I became scared, I felt your presence even more strongly. Sometimes I even felt that you were touching me. I opened my eyes to look but you were still in your seat. I feel better now, more complete, as if something heavy was removed from me.”