Kerri Connor - Wake, Bake & Meditate: Take Your Spiritual Practice to a Higher Level with Cannabis

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

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Wake, Bake & Meditate: Take Your Spiritual Practice to a Higher Level with Cannabis 2020 by Kerri Connor.

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First e-book edition 2020

E-book ISBN: 9780738760674

Book design by Samantha Penn

Cover design by Shira Atakpu

Editing by Annie Burdick

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Connor, Kerri, author.

Title: Wake, bake & meditate : take your spiritual practice to a higher

level with cannabis / Kerri Connor.

Other titles: Wake, bake, and meditate

Description: First edition. | Woodbury, Minnesota : Llewellyn Worldwide,

Ltd, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020000485 (print) | LCCN 2020000486 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738760636 (paperback) | ISBN 9780738760674 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience. | Cannabis.

| Marijuana. | Meditation.

Classification: LCC BL65.D7 C67 2020 (print) | LCC BL65.D7 (ebook) | DDC

204/.2dc23

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Contents

: Wake: A Brief History of the Spiritual Use of Cannabis

: Recommended Strains for Spiritual Use

: Bake: Time to Experiment

: Meditate: Bringing the Mind into the Mix

: Your Solitary Practice

: Creating a Group Practice

: Cooking with Cannabis

: Possible Side Effects of Cannabis Use

: If You Consume Too Much

Disclaimer

Using, distributing, and/or selling cannabis is a federal crime and may also be illegal in your state or local vicinity. It is your responsibility to understand all laws pertaining to the possession or use of cannabis before choosing to obtain or use it. Neither the author nor publisher are accountable for consequences derived from the possession or use thereof.

Always seek the advice of a qualified health provider with questions regarding medical issues. This book is not a substitute for medical advice.

Acknowledgments

No book comes without help, so I have a few people to thank.

Thank you to:

Tammy for all the info on how to get my cardI should have done it sooner!

Tyler for being my coach.

Krystle for finding a Thursday babysitter so I could spend more time writing.

Taylor for being my first partner.

Brandee for helping with taste testing.

Mike for putting up with me and the weed smell.

Laura for everything, including taste testing and keeping me slightly sane.

BN 2959 for being the most supportive group of people I know. I love you and miss you all.

Everyone at Llewellyn Publications for allowing me the opportunity to make this book with you.

Introduction

T hank you for picking up this book. For whatever reason, it spoke to you. Whether you are interested in spirituality, meditation, or cannabis, something about this book spoke to you.

I would like to start by telling you what Wake, Bake & Meditate is NOT.

It is not meant to convince you to start using cannabis. It isnt here to tell you if you dont, you are missing out. It isnt intended to tell you to run out and break the law if you happen to live in a place where the smoking or consumption of certain plants is illegal. It wont tell you how to use different forms of cannabis or paraphernalia for consumption, but it will help you broaden your spiritual world once you do use them.

More specifically, it will teach you how to meditate with cannabis and will give you several meditations to practice on your own and with a group. Using cannabis to open your body-mind-spirit connection to the divine is a deep and deeply personal experience. Wake, Bake & Meditate will help you dive in. It will help you through your beginner stages of learning how to use cannabis in a spiritual meditation, set up your practice as a solitary, and then help you advance on to group workings.

As a practicing Pagan, I understand there may be some debate and concern about whether it is safe to use mind-altering drugs in a practice. On that note, I would like to state the following.

In my opinion, cannabis is a plant. It is not a drug. It is classified as a drug so that it can be controlled by the government. My hope is that someday soon, maybe even by the time this book comes out, the United States of America (as a country) will realize the value of cannabis and legalize. My own state has a medical compassion program and just signed legislation measures to legalize recreational usage. Cannabis has been used as an entheogen for literally thousands of years and has been illegal in the US for less than one hundred. History and facts support the use of cannabis. Opinion and fear are its enemies.

You also do not need to be Pagan to use this book. It does include a brief history of the use of cannabis in several different types of spiritualism, showing how it has been used for centuries as a conduit to the universe and divine. Whatever your beliefs and practices are, you can easily adjust the meditations to fit your own spiritual realm if necessary.