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Blue Lotus Incense

Our Blue Lotus incense is made from the finest blue lotus oil imported from cultivators in the USA amazingly enough. There is demand there for those who use the dried petals to make tea and also smoke!!   It appears to contain apomorphine, a drug with psychoactive properties. Blue lotus is a heady almost fruity incense with low woody notes but with a hint of high ethereal notes like in Patchouli. Very exotic.

The Lotus Flower is the most famous flower in Vedic poetry and literature in India as its soft colourful and extraordinary beauty have meant its feature in many philosophical and spiritual works where the Supreme Godhead's transcendental and spiritual form is compared to the beauty and softness of this flower and His eyes likened to the lotus petal.

Also known as Egyptian Lotus, Blue Water Lily, Sacred Narcotic Lily of the Nile. It is Nymphaea caerulea (blue lotus) which was used in ancient Egypt as a key to good health and rebirth.   Represented in ancient Egyptian art. The blue lotus was found scattered over Tutankhamen's body when the Pharaoh's tomb was opened in 1922. Many historians thought it was a purely symbolic flower, but there may be some reason to believe that ancient Egyptians used it to induce an ecstatic state, stimulation, and/or hallucinations, as well as being widely used as a general remedy against illness.

It is this flower which lent its name to Alfred, Lord Tennyson's (fl. 1850) poem, in which that blue flower symbolizes whatever urges us to seek new experiences. The poem refers to the episode in The Odyssey of Homer in which Odysseus' gets sidetracked on his way home from the Trojan war.