Warmth

 The smoke from a pipe is the result of the pipe being warm.  The flame causes the smoke and as a result the pipe is warmed by the heat from the tobacco.  Heat is the spiritual result of the smoke that rises from a pipe.  I think of the smoke that rises from a pipe as the spiritual aspect of the pipe.  

I don’t see visions in the smoke, but what I do see is a dormant pipe coming to life to serve a divine purpose for me.  It means one simple thing:  Relaxation.  And when I am relaxed meditation follows.  It’s why for me a pipe is a tool that serves the Divine.

Some might suggest this is just an excuse for smoking a pipe.  Could I meditate just as well without a pipe?  Probably.  But when my Angels said smoking a pipe was up to me, a pipe is how I connect my Spirituality with an inanimate object.  It is a tool.  Nothing more and nothing less.  

Pipes have served this purpose for thousands of years with other ingredients than just tobacco.  But a pipe has always been spiritual in some form or another because it benefits with relaxation.  One becomes more connected to the universe when one is relaxed.  

Of course, I’m not sure I can prove this to those of you who don’t smoke a pipe, but most anyone who smokes a pipe knows it a big part of relaxation.  As for meditation, I would say that only those who agree with me might understand more than I can explain here.  

In some ways a pipe is just a pipe.  And in some ways tobacco blend choices are just tobacco.  But together they work in harmony for the purpose of relaxation.  I’m smoking my Savinelli Arcobaleno Blue pipe with some Cornell and Diehl Winchester tobacco.  My coffee is Stumptown Holler Mountain coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace and Love to each one of you.

Papa Chasteen