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This message is shared with love and intention in partnership with Cave News Times, as we walk together in truth, healing, and open-minded faith.
Today, we light the sacred herb not to escape—but to remember. To honor. To heal.
🔥 What Does It Mean to Be a Father—When You Never Had One?
What happens to the boy who never calls anyone “Dad”?
What becomes of the man raised by women, shaped by silence, and taught to survive without a map?
For many, Father’s Day is a celebration. But for others, it’s a complicated mirror—reflecting what was missing, what could’ve been, or what still aches inside.
And yet…
In that absence, something sacred can still be born.
✨ The Sacred Masculine, the Wounded Masculine — and the Role of Cannabis
Across ancient traditions, the masculine was never just about dominance or power. It was protector, teacher, stillness, and sacred fire.
In Taoism, the yang is action—but also structure and light.
In the Gnostic texts, the Divine Father is not a man—but an emanation of order, consciousness, and potential.
Jesus himself spoke of “Abba” not as a distant patriarch—but as intimacy, a personal source of love and wisdom.
But somewhere along the way, the sacred masculine was hijacked—twisted into control, anger, and fear.
The Empire made “Father” a title of power.
Religion made “Father God” a judge, a king, a threat.
And many human fathers—broken by their own unhealed wounds—passed on silence, shame, or absence instead of strength.
This is where cannabis comes in—not as a crutch, but a key.
When used with reverence, the plant quiets the voices of judgment and pain.
It makes space for reflection.
It allows the fatherless to feel again—and the fathers to be soft again.
“We don’t escape through cannabis—we return to what’s sacred.”
🧠 Becoming What We Needed: A Gnostic Reflection on Fatherhood
In Gnosticism, the divine spark is trapped in matter—but it remembers.
So too does the child who was never held by a father.
He remembers the shape of what he needed.
And in remembering, he can become it.
To father is not just to create life—it is to hold space, to guide with compassion, to stand as both shield and soil.
The absence of a good father does not doom us.
It calls us to be conscious—to do what was not done, to give what was not given, to heal what was passed on.
Cannabis, in ritual, helps us listen deeper. It teaches the wounded father to soften before he passes on the wound.
It teaches the son to stop chasing approval and start embodying truth.
“God may be real—but religion is man’s story about it.”
“Fatherhood is not authority. It is presence. And presence is sacred.”
🕯️ The Challenge of the Day: To Honor the Father You Are (or Can Be)
Whether you had a father, lost one, never met one, or are trying to become one—this day is for you.
Not to glorify some ideal.
But to reflect on what it means to show up—in truth, in kindness, in imperfection.
Light your sacred herb with intention today.
Let the smoke rise—not to cloud your pain, but to clarify your path.
Ask yourself:
- Who do I need to forgive—so I don’t carry it forward?
- What kind of father do I want to be—to others, to the world, to my inner child?
- Where can I show up today with presence, even if I never had a model?
“This week, smoke with reverence. And vow this:
My children will not wait by the window in vain.
I will be what I needed.
I will father the future I believe in.”
🙏 Thank you for joining us.
This has been a sermon of the Cannabis Church of Science and Faith.
Walk in wisdom. Heal in light. Live in truth.
