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Get ready for a night filled with conspiracies, strange places, the paranormal UFOs, legends and myths from around the world with your hosts, K-Town on mysterious radio.

All right, thank you for joining me tonight for another edition of mysterious radio. I'm your host K-Town and tonight my special guest is author, Will Johnson, and he's here to discuss his book is called Cannabis in spiritual practice, the ecstasy, a Shiva and the calm of Buddha in this book is available on Amazon in Kindle and paperback.

In this book, Will provides instructions for using marijuana for spiritual practices, a spontaneous movement, ecstasy dance, sitting meditation and gazing meditation, allowing you to open up your body's energies more fully and getting closer to the divine or your higher self.

And I start off by asking Will how he got involved in meditation practices.

Yeah, okay, well I'm someone who got involved in meditation practices fairly early in my early 20s. I also started really getting into awakening my body in those years as well.

And somehow the two seem to connect and seem to get launched on this path that I eventually started writing about because it seemed it seemed clear to me that most spiritual practices traditionally focus on what we conventionally call mind, but look upon body is some kind of obstacle.

And I was experiencing was just the opposite that you awaken the body you bring it to light to life most of us don't feel very much, but on every part of the body down to the smallest cell, there's these minute little pin prick blips the sensation we can awaken that.

So body becomes this unified field of feeling presence. So when you know that kind of thing goes on that becomes a doorway to some of these deeper deeper and altogether natural conditions of human beings we have access to if we give ourselves permission to go there.

So in a sense, I just kept writing about that now it is also true for me in addition to being a Buddhist teacher and working in the Buddhist world.

I also as a young guy cannabis was God's medicine for me at the time and it just would be untruthful for me to say anything about that it was very, very important for me when it came into my life.

I helped me get in touch with lots of things about myself that I saw that perhaps I was covering over resisting or not owning or acknowledging I've also been a musician playing improvisational music.

So it was also an ally in that over the years I found that there were certain practices not all of them and basically the Buddhist practices don't particularly work all that well with cannabis.

And I talk about that in the book, but there are these other practices more from the Shiva tradition that cannabis could almost be seen as an integral component of the practice and so in addition to teaching in the Buddhist world where when I teach those retreats everybody follows the precepts the last one is no intoxicants no mind altering substances at all.

And I do that in the context of those teachings and practices because it works, but when I'm at home on my own doing some of these body awakening practices outside of the Buddhist sitting.

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