Sep 5, 2026 · 28 min · 10 segments
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back friends! This week on the podcast I talk about some deep energy work, smoking bhang (marijuana) with a sadhu…
And so I've talked on this podcast before about alcohol use and abuse.
I abstain from alcohol, but I do smoke marijuana.
So I wanted to talk about that.
that today, because I think sometimes this can be misconstrued.
And if we take it back to its roots, which is what we're going to do today, it's a really beautiful thing.
So it's dated back to like 1500 BC.
So roughly 3000 years ago.
more we began smoking the marijuana and in India and so the sages began using it it's noted it's recorded being used for these meditative purposes and for calming the mind or the spirit and yeah, being able to really settle in and reach these kind of transcendent states of being and states of mind to understand the world at large, you know, to kind of take a step back from our humanity, from our human body and elevate a little bit above that to really take a broader, view of the world and what's around us and what we actually are.
And so, um, with that, you know, these sadhus would sit and they would smoke, um, I think it's like, they call it like bhang.
This is where you get the word indica, because the plant itself is mostly from India.
And so...
And so I've talked on this podcast before about alcohol use and abuse.
I abstain from alcohol, but I do smoke marijuana.
So I wanted to talk about that.
that today, because I think sometimes this can be misconstrued.
And if we take it back to its roots, which is what we're going to do today, it's a really beautiful thing.
So it's dated back to like 1500 BC.
So roughly 3000 years ago.
more we began smoking the marijuana and in India and so the sages began using it it's noted it's recorded being used for these meditative purposes and for calming the mind or the spirit and yeah, being able to really settle in and reach these kind of transcendent states of being and states of mind to understand the world at large, you know, to kind of take a step back from our humanity, from our human body and elevate a little bit above that to really take a broader, view of the world and what's around us and what we actually are.
And so, um, with that, you know, these sadhus would sit and they would smoke, um, I think it's like, they call it like bhang.
This is where you get the word indica, because the plant itself is mostly from India.
And so...
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