Incense

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There is a question about incense. Is it good for us? Is it like secondhand smoke?

Hilarion: this is a tricky one because really what it reflects on is the powerful aspect that you have in being here, in experiencing everything while you are physical. Nonphysical incense, this is a powerful paradox because what do you smell? You instantaneously create it but at the same time most of the smells that are shared are those from memory. Since memories can be shared at the nonphysical level sometime somebody else's memory can that be that which you can perceive. But, it ain't nothing like the real thing and that's often why you come here, specifically to experience that. You want to take it in by your physical senses. So, in this way we would certainly suggest that incense be smelled. Burning sage, burning sandalwood, and burning cedar. You are able to receive the powerful message of that energy and receive that beautiful smile and lodge that in your memory. Then, we would strongly suggest because it is primarily that of burning particulate matter that tends to lodge itself in your body and create harm eventually, that you join in the memory experience and not the physical experience in awakening and receiving what is valuable about that for you.

Aromatherapy can also be beneficial but it will often have in it small amounts of vapor or liquid that is very easily cleansed from the body much more easily than the tiny particular solid matter of a burning substance and there are those who have used aromatherapy methods to give the same smells as sandalwood, cedar, sage, etc. so you can also receive some of those smells in that way. But, you are quite correct in that the burning smell is not quite the same, there is a subtle difference but it is there. So in this way we would suggest that the singular exposure is the way to go rather than repeated use.

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