The Free Radical

I eat a lot of flowers. And I’m pretty sure that I eat more wild roses than anything else.

Usually, June is Wild Rose Month. This year, it seems, the rose bloom will last well into July. As yet, there is no sign of it beginning to abate. Already there have been more roses than ever before!

I really don’t know the actual nutritional profile of rose petals… but that’s not why I eat them. Roses have long been associated with the human heart. The soft pink colour of sun-bleached wild roses is the colour associated with the “High Heart” or the spiritual heart on an energetic level. (This is different from chakras, wherein green is the colour associated with the heart chakra. Chakras are an old– and becoming obsolete– energy program based in fragmentation.) By eating rose petals as I enjoy my forest walks, I am attuning myself to the forest around me through the universal energy of the heart. I listen through the heart. I receive these Daily Forest Reports through the proper attunement of my heart. Rose petals are essential food in my books.

Wild roses is where it’s at. Domestic varieties cannot hold a candle to their wild counterparts… either in flavour or energetic vibrancy. The fragrance too is far superior in my opinion. Every year I gather bags of wild rose petals for the brewing of a very special beer, as can be seen in the picture above. I collected three such bags for this year’s Rose Petal Cerveza… which will be going into the bottles any day now. Consider this your invitation to Beerfest 7 which happens in October at my place in Fairmont Hot Springs, BC, Canada. The whole world is invited, and yes I do have 7 billion beers… approximately.

Next time you stop to smell the roses, pluck a few petals and taste them. Allow their subtle energy to work its magic in opening you up to a whole new world of esoteric experience.