Burning incense
At about the same time as the turnoff the millennium the interest was revived in a tradition which has accompanied the most varying cultures of our planet in one way or another since time immemorial: burning aromatic herbal substances for purposes of physical as well as mental-spiritual well-being.
As a companion of religious-spiritual or also magical ceremonies, for protection against infectious germs or as a useful process for conservation of foodstuffs, burning incense (or smoking foodstuffs) has somehow left behind vestiges in every society of this earth.
These vestiges always have something to do with the preservation of life. Anyone who comes in contact with aromatic smoke feels that deep inside. Of course the reactions are extremely multifaceted, since this sense is frequently in conjunction with elementary experiences. From archaic instincts to pleasant or unpleasant childhood experiences, the most varying realms of our inner life will be activated and indicate a distinct response.
We perceive how something becomes manifest in us through the impression of a fragrance which calls for space. The smoke of aromatic plants seems a bit like a key effect. Something that is locked in the cellar would like to be free.
It is really astonishing that so many people are suddenly so open-minded about burning incense. It seems as if we should think back on something essential, a quality which we lost on the way through the recent past.
This phenomenon can be especially well observed by those who go into a public area with this medium in order to work with it. The numerous reactions of fellow human beings speak for themselves, and will repeatedly confirm what was said beforehand.
Bibliography:
Windpferd publishing company; author: Thomas Kinkele, Räucherstoffe und Räucherrituale [“Incense and Incense Rituals”]
Incense is burned in apartments, house, and public rooms— wherever dark or burdensome energies should be transformed.
Public rooms, firms
Meetings with fellow humans, where creativity and knowledge shall create an important prerequisite in order to invigorate new ideas, conversations and dynamic force. Such rooms are rife with the old and allow little room for the new.
Private rooms
Burdensome energies also emerge in the conflict with oneself, with one’s own unpleasant stories which cling to you and do not let go. Due to this immobility of anxious thoughts it is now always for people to take suitable steps.
‘Something which resists you continues to exist. That which you look at vanishes.’
It is important to make the immobile mobile in every discussion. This requires a transformation so that new space can be created.
Other sources which render good services as a medium should not be forgotten, such as conversations with suitable, trained individuals, focussing with medial guidance, psychotherapeutic counselling and bodywork.
The transformation can be supported by burning incense.
An incense burning ritual including material and mental reprogramming costs 120 Swiss francs per hour.