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Fragrant Clouds Of Purity And Protection

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Fragrant Clouds Of Purity And Protection

Human beings are far more sensitive than can be accounted for by sight, hearing touch, taste and smell. We react in different ways to people and places, 'feeling' them to be beneficial to us or not, although such differences cannot be accounted for by the way they look. A person might walk into a room and appear perfectly normal, in that they are dressed like every one else and behave in much the same way, but we might feel suddenly, unaccountably distressed. Or we might feel suddenly, uncomfortable distressed. or we might walk into a room and feel uncomfortable in it, although it's clean and well-furnished. It may even be our own home that feels, at times, uncomfortable in a way we cannot explain.

Unseen energies are a part of life and, although invisible, affect us deeply and even change the course of our actions. people say, 'I just want to get out of here,' and, although we may not have the same feeling, we understand that some unpleasant energy phenomenon has taken place and reply,' OK' let's go. "You often hear people say of a person "They" sap my energy,' and although there's no energy to see, we know exactly what they mean and sympathize. You even hear people occasionally say, I felt a presence in the room,' and, although we don't know exactly what this 'presence' is, we've known similar experiences at some point in our lives and accept what they say. Even though we may have a limited vocabulary to describe these invisible energy experiences, they are there nonetheless.

If invisibility meant non-existence, there would be no such thing as portable radios. TVs and mobile telephones because these are the receiving hardware that interpret bits of invisible information floating through the air. Our bodies are the receivers of other, natural, unseen energies, some of which are not welcome in our lives.

judging by the number of talismans, ceremonies and rituals used by people around the world, from earliest times, dealing with these unseen force has been a very widespread human activity. They have been variously perceived as 'bad luck', 'the evil eye', 'spirits' and in more modern times as 'negative thought forms', 'distressed emotional frequencies' and so forth. Some Christians wear a St Christopher's medal as a pendant to protect them while travelling, or cross of the Crucifixion; while a feng shui expert might rearrange the furniture in a building to redirect the 'wind and water' forces, to bring good energies and fortune. 


In dealing with the invisible forces, and dispite differences in belief, geographical location and time,people have often used fragrance as a protective shield between them and the perceived negativity. This manipulation of fragrance for spiritual ends binds people very distant from each other in belief, space and time, and often they use the same widely dispersed species of plant to facilitate more or less the same thing. Cedarwood, pine, and juniper are among those plants that have been widely adopted in this way.

Native Americans living along the Thompson River burnt juniper to keep 'ghosts' away, and in Tibet juniper is offered daily to good spirits. In several native American cultures, the aroma of burning sweetgrass or sage purifies the enetgies and attracts the 'supernaturals'. In some Arab homes, on Thursdays, frankincense is burnt in a censer and carried through the living rooms and bedrooms - to expel evil spirits and invite the angels in.

In the souk in Cairo, Egypt, and elsewhere, people make a living going from shop to shop, censing each in turn with frankincense burnt in a censer or even a small piece of charcoal in a rusty tin can, to dispel any negative energy customers may have left behind, making the environment more inviting to potential customers.

Such practices have been going on for millennia. The ancient mesopotanians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all used fragrance not only to attract beneficial energy, but to keep in auspicious energies 'at bay'. The Greeks fumigated homes with bay leaves, while in the early days of Rome verbena or other fragrant plants were hung above doorways  to deter il malochio, the evil eye. Censers were kept burning by front doors in classical times, even by the poorer households. In medieval Europe, 'witches' were the feared bad spirit, and rituals were carried out at pivotal points in the year with the object of dispelling them from the vicinity.

These often involved walking through the village or town wavering bunches of smouldering fragrant herbs or woods to send the aroma into every nook and cranny. Juniper and rosemary were amongst those widely used. In the feng shui spirit-placating rite, tun fu, incense is used.

Reference: The Fragrant Heavens: Valerie Ann Worwood

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