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Volume and weight per jar: 50ml glass jar, 27 g

Portions per jar: 66 - 72

Burn Time on Charcoal: 200+ minutes

Burn Time with Electric Burner: 222+ hours

An invitation through the doorway to expand awareness to what is just beyond known thoughts, feelings, concepts and senses. 

This expansive blend contains a celestial range of top notes and fulsome heart and base notes to broaden perspective and open awareness.
This formula carries a distinct capacity to dissipate polarities and binary thought patterns. Woven into the blend are allies to integrates our perception of light and dark to see the broader whole.

The first bloom is rich and expansive, of earth and sky,
water and ether, spacious in all directions. The rush of clean, sweet air after a storm opens the field, blossoming with penetrating, sun-warmed citrus notes
woven with soft petals of honey, conifer and dappled light.

TOP NOTES: A light-filled Cypress species from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco to lift and open the spirit with the distinct quality of moving blocked energy.

HEART NOTES: Four specific types of Copal offer a compendium of clearing, protection, clarity, expansive opening and to stimulate creativity and imagination.

BASE NOTES: A gentle anchor of Dragons Blood as a potentiator to activate the mystical, liminal and dream realms, astral travel and channels of abundance, while drawing energy from a grounded core.

>> Use as a potentiator for creative work flow, brainstorming and expansive thinking

>> To stimulate imagination and expansive thinking

>> To open up to a larger field of thought, awareness and curiosity

>> In practical and spiritual practices with an expansive, outward energy

>> To help access to broader liminal states and dream realms, even in the waking state

How to Burn Ritual Resin Incense on Charcoal

1. Light a tablet of charcoal using a torch lighter or by holding the tablet with metal tongs over a flame. Quick-lighting charcoal needs only a few seconds to ignite. Japanese charcoal may need up to 30 seconds of exposure to the flame.) 
2. Set charcoal on the screen of a brass burner or on a small mound of sand or ash.
3. Allow ignited charcoal to stand until fully active.
   Quick-light charcoal will become fully alive in 2-3 minutes. With quick-light charcoal, allow this in a well-ventilated place or outside to let impurities to burn off.
   Japanese charcoal will become fully alive in 8-10 minutes.
4. Gently blow on the coal to see it is entirely alive.
5. Once coal is fully active, welcome the resin blend and place a small amount on top of the coal.