Egyptian lotus

Geranium was an exclusive one year.

Blue lotus was an exclusive one year.

And then we got to get it as a permanent oil the next year.

So like, and maybe you're remembering some of these as well.

So FCO, lemon, Douglas fir, and in parentheses it says balsam organ.

I don't know.

Japanese mint, cardamom, sweet gum, and blue lotus.

Extract.

Traditional belief across many of these cultures holds kava as a genuine bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds, used specifically to seek ancestral guidance and communal wisdom, and its role in Pacific Islander life continues actively today, both at home in the islands and among diaspora communities abroad keeping this ceremony alive far from their original shores.

Blue lotus, nymphaea cerulea, technically a water lily rather than a true lotus despite its common name, held deep ceremonial significance in ancient Egypt, called seshin by the Egyptians themselves.

It appears constantly across tomb paintings and temple walls associated with rebirth and the rising sun, since the flower opens each morning and closes again each night, a daily cycle Egyptians read as a living metaphor for the sun's own death and resurrection.

Most famously, Howard Carter found Tutankhamun's own body covered in blue lotus petals when he opened the pharaoh's tomb in 1922.

Modern chemical analysis has identified two active alkaloids in the plant, apomorphine and nuciferine, both influencing dopamine activity, producing what's generally described as a mild sense of euphoria, relaxation, and dreaminess, rather than the intense visionary effects of substances like ayahuasca or psilocybin.

Worth being honest here, this one carries real scholarly disagreement.

Some Egyptologists argue that the alkaloid concentration is simply too low, especially steeped in wine as it traditionally was, to produce any noticeable effect at all.

And ancient Egyptian texts themselves are notably restrained, never describing anything resembling the dramatic altered states other traditions in this episode report directly.

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Maybe the blue lotus, because that's the one that I know you for.

Yeah, I work really intimately with blue lotus.

It's funny as a herbalist, like when people find that out, they're like, Oh, what's your favorite plant? And I'm like, all of them.

Like it changes all the time.

You know, we're not static beings and neither is the natural world.

So it makes sense to kind of fluctuate and flow with your relationships with them.

But the Blue Lotus was introduced to me by a friend of mine and very quickly became one of my most potent teachers to the point where I now have a product line dedicated to Blue Lotus.

Okay.

Chamomile is not expensive, right? It's not like Blue Lotus? No.

No, God,

no. It's nothing like Blue Lotus.

So I can ruin some of that and it's not going to be the end of the world? Okay, cool.

Because I probably will.

It's interesting.

Um, this one's called Blue Lotus.

Let's go.

Blue lotus closes three times, three times in days.

Blue lotus opens three times, three times in days.

Can you help me with this pain? Help ease this pain.

I'm not going back again.

Yeah.

Well, his medicine is kind of broken out between heart openers and spirit, right? So with the openers, we have Blue Lotus and White Lily and Kana just as examples, or some of those proprietary blends like MSK or the B5s.

And then if we get into the spirits, of course, there's psilocybin and then ma and ma is mushroom ayahuasca and um i'd say ma is my favorite it's by far the strong i mean some of all of armand's medicine he doesn't work with um ayahuasca pure so whenever that community worked with ayahuasca um and or san pedro they called in a shaman from who was coming from la or from peru specifically um to work with that you know work with that medicine on its own um but within armand's world ma was the strongest medicine that he had i'd say and that one is my favorite um I personally prefer spirit medicine.

I really, when I'm in touch with spirit, when I'm in touch with divine, I feel, I mean, this is when I, yeah, I don't know what the word is.

Like, people are out here in the smoke shops, bro.

They're smoking blue lotus flower, bro.

That's, like, the new thing out there, bro.

Yeah, dog.

Like I said, people that are not in legal states, they're smoking other things.

What's

Blue Lotus? What the hell is that?

So you know the thing in the Odyssey that kept that fool in the island? Yeah.