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Get startedCannabis isn’t just a plant — it’s a misunderstood spiritual ally that can shift your entire perception of reality as a catalyst for deep personal and collective transformation.
Reframe everything you thought you knew about cannabis through skillful guidance and ceremonial practice as you explore its ancient sacred origins — and its power to open the door to nondual awareness, ignite creativity, and bring profound inner peace.
For centuries, cannabis was revered by mystics and Indigenous cultures as a sacred plant — a spiritual ally for calming the body, quieting the mind, and expanding consciousness.
Today, that sacred connection has largely been obscured. Often dismissed as recreational or burdened by stigma, cannabis is widely misunderstood.
Yet, as longtime ceremony guide and spiritual teacher Stephen Gray shares, when used with intention and reverence, cannabis becomes powerful medicine for the soul and for direct experience of the Divine.
Experience Stephen's illuminating video course and explore what he calls an “open secret”: that cannabis, approached mindfully rather than casually, reveals itself as an intelligent force of nature that can open your heart, quiet your mental chatter, and deepen your spiritual journey.
With practices that include ceremonial rituals, breathing exercises, and guided meditations, Stephen guides you to explore cannabis’ historical roots and engage this ancient plant as a mystical companion on your spiritual path.
With over 40 years immersed in entheogenic traditions, his depth of experience spans 50 years of spiritual study and psychedelic exploration — from Tibetan Buddhism and Native American Church ceremonies, to ayahuasca traditions and beyond.
His grounded, heart-centered approach offers a wise and welcoming gateway into the deeper dimensions of working with cannabis.
For those on a path of growth and self-inquiry, cannabis can serve as a gentle yet powerful amplifier — one that enhances meditation, reveals inner truth, and reconnects you to Source through the wisdom of your body and breath.
As more people seek authentic healing and spiritual connection, this ancient ally is being welcomed back into the circle — not as an escape from reality but restoration of the divine relationship between humans and Earth intelligence..
Over seven sessions, you’ll delve into cannabis’ sacred origins as you learn to work with it as a portal for awakening, creativity, and inner peace.
Whether you're new to cannabis, already exploring its sacred potential, or seeking to reconnect with it on a deeper level — this is your invitation to see it through a fresh lens, and remember, as Stephen calls it, its timeless role as "the people's plant.”
In this 7-module self-paced video course, you’ll:
- Explore essential guidance and practices for effective and safe use of cannabis in spiritual work
- Incorporate cannabis into a range of spiritual and “quasi-spiritual” practices and activities
- Use cannabis to enhance and sharpen creative thinking, visioning, and artistic endeavors
- Reclaim and reframe the ancient history of cannabis to understand its relevance and potential in your modern life
- Work with cannabis as a non-specific amplifier to open your heart and deepen your experience of inner peace
- Receive grounded, practical guidance for engaging cannabis as a spiritual ally
- Integrate cannabis into your spiritual path through intentional, embodied practice
- Participate in group ceremonies that foster perseverance, presence, and natural discipline
- Learn how to avoid common pitfalls so cannabis becomes a catalyst for your creative and spiritual life
- Explore cannabis as a sacred tool for global awakening — a sacrament of peace for a universal spiritual future
Stephen is the longtime co-organizer of the acclaimed Spirit Plant Medicine Conference and has helped catalyze a global conversation about the sacred use of psychedelics — and cannabis in particular — as tools for personal transformation and collective healing.
Through his books, including Cannabis and Spirituality: An Explorer’s Guide to an Ancient Plant Spirit Ally, he offers grounded, experience-based insight into how to use this misunderstood plant as a powerful ally for inner stillness, heart opening, and expanded consciousness.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-part transformational course, Stephen guides you through the skills and competencies you’ll need to consciously engage the amplifying power of cannabis to embody your divine essence.
This course features step-by-step teachings and experiential practices from Stephen. Each session builds harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to connect with cannabis, a potent spiritual ally for opening your heart and embodying divinity. Your purchase includes 24/7 ongoing access to your course content, allowing you time to review the materials at your own pace and integration.
Module 1: Explore & Reframe the Ancient History of Cannabis to Better Understand How It Can Become a Spiritual Ally in Your Life
When you deeply understand cannabis and use it with intention and skill as part of your ongoing spiritual development, it essentially becomes a different plant entirely — with radically different effects and benefits when compared with recreational use.
As your journey begins, Stephen provides essential context through a brief exploration of the ancient and widespread use of cannabis for spiritual benefit.
As Stephen explains, we moderns who are now reclaiming and rehonoring cannabis as a spiritual medicine, are standing on broad shoulders — the spiritual use of cannabis is not a recent idea or a "new age" conceit, but has been part of our human experience in many regions of the planet going far back into history and pre-history.
You’ll be guided through a historical timeline and places where this ancient friend and ally has been used for these purposes — and also learn why cannabis is often vilified, misunderstood, and misused.
In this opening module, you’ll explore:
- A history of human cannabis use dating back at least 12,000 years
- How cannabis use spread from the Far East to the farthest reaches of the globe
- Current examples of ritual and religious use
- The “battle” between controllers and freedom-loving people
- A guided Shamatha meditation — a Buddhist practice focused on developing mental stability and focus through sustained attention on a chosen object
Module 2: Use Cannabis as a Non-Specific Amplifier for Opening Your Heart & Deepening Your Sense of Inner Peace
Drawing on his extensive background as a student and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, Stephen reviews basic universal principles of spirituality and the path toward our true, unconditional nature. These include the illusion of the egoic separate self, and how cannabis can help dissolve those illusions and conditioned obstacles.
Stephen examines in detail how cannabis can be a “reality medicine” when used with skill and intention. It's a holistic energy medicine that works with mind and body simultaneously, functioning as a non-specific amplifier that can be channeled toward an opening of the heart and a deepening sense of inner peace.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- Spirituality, spiritual awakening, and the illusion of the separate ego
- Trusting in awakened nature and encouragement of inner silence as the gateway
- How cannabis can help in dissolving obstacles and egoic illusions
- How “she” (cannabis) is a non-specific amplifier and a truth serum when used with intention
- A guided body scan to blend with your Shamatha practice
Module 3: Practical Guidance for Working With Cannabis as a Spiritual Guide
Building on the background and principles addressed in the first two modules, Stephen provides practical, accessible, user-friendly guidance on how cannabis can be effectively incorporated into your ongoing spiritual development.
Drawing on his experience as a cannabis ceremony leader and educator, Stephen offers thoroughly field-tested guidance on essential practical matters like optimal dosage; the importance of finding the right strain and combination of components; knowing the source of your plant material; misunderstandings and myths around the sativa vs. indica issue; the significant influence of some of the major terpenes in cannabis; and the various methods of intake such as smoking vs. vaporizing, oral ingestion, and sub-lingual administration.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- User-friendly guidance on how to skillfully incorporate cannabis into your ongoing spiritual development
- The importance of the correct dosage
- Various cannabis strains and how their effects can differ
- Dealing with unwanted effects and experiences
- The pros and cons of various methods of intake
- A guided White Light visualization to combine with your new body scan and Shamatha practices
Module 4: Deepen Your Spiritual Experience by Incorporating Cannabis Into Your Existing Body & Mind Practices
Following the practical guidance provided in Module 3, Stephen explores various kinds of practices that can work effectively when cannabis is incorporated, beginning with the simplest and purest, like a basic follow-the-breath practice.
These practices can include everything from yoga to chant, breathwork, and movement modalities such as Tai Chi Chuan — plus visualization, chakra tuning, shamanic drumming, dance, and even a meditative walk in the woods.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- The principle of relaxing out of the limiting head-sourced constraints of the confused ego-mind
- Optimal frequency of use when employing cannabis as a spiritual ally
- The necessity of integrating the amplification power of cannabis during mind-body practices for ensuring an optimal experience
- A guided sound journey with shamanic drumming or crystal bowls
Module 5: Group Ceremonial Work for Cultivating Perseverance & Unforced Discipline
Stephen discusses the power of a solid “container” and the intangible X factor that can manifest in situations of shared group energy.
He explains how to cultivate a shared sense of commitment, and the resulting unforced discipline that arises naturally in group work settings.
Stephen also shares his field-tested, user-friendly, flexible template for group work developed during his 15 years of experience. You'll learn about formats and practice variations for group work with the cannabis sacrament, then engage in a condensed experiential run-through of one of these ceremonies.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- The power of group energy in having engaging and transformative experiences
- The importance of a safe, reliable, and experience-based container for group ceremonies
- Variations of group ceremony formats and focus
- A 20-30 minute experiential dry run through Stephen’s ceremony format
Module 6: Avoid Common Pitfalls So Cannabis Can Help You Manifest Your Creative Visions
The first part of this module includes a discussion of the nature of creativity and artistic endeavor from a spiritual perspective — and how the unique capabilities of cannabis can enhance and stimulate certain kinds of creative thinking and action.
Stephen guides you to examine elements like intention, dosage, preferred strains, and how to bring ideas back down from “heaven” to the grounded realities of manifesting your visions. You'll discuss which kinds and stages of creative work are most appropriate for inviting the contribution of this ancient plant ally — and which are best handled without it.
In the second part of this module, Stephen examines obstacles and cautions that can crop up in working with cannabis — issues like overdosing, dependency, and addiction; cannabis and the adolescent brain; the paranoia phenomenon, and the story of The Three Tests.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- How cannabis can stimulate and clarify creative thinking and some stages of artistic creation
- Practical, real-world guidance for making your vision a reality
- Cautions, obstacles, undesirable outcomes, and counter-indications that come with cannabis use
- A guided creative visualization and thought experiment
Module 7: Cannabis as a Tool for the Widespread Transformation of Consciousness and as a Sacrament of Peace for the Universal "Religion" of the Future
As this journey comes to a close, you'll examine the current planetary situation of imbalance and the capability of cannabis to re-establish homeostatic balance in the individual and in society.
Stephen shares some of the ways cannabis can do this with a strong emphasis on right attitude, intention, and skill with a medicine sacrament whose power as an advanced spiritual ally has historically been poorly understood and badly underestimated.
You’ll examine how cannabis, when properly understood and worked with, can function as the sacrament of peace for what you might call an informal, non-hierarchical, non-dogmatic, inclusive universal “religion” of peace and connection.
In this closing module, you’ll explore:
- A brief examination of our current planetary situation and possible visions for our collective future
- The potential role of cannabis in individual and collective consciousness transformation and rebalancing
- The importance of staying behind the medicine with the right attitude, as you humbly let the medicine teach you
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Stephen’s transformative 7-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Practical Guidelines for Effective Use of Cannabis as a Spiritual Ally
Digital Handbook From Stephen Gray
Drawing on his decades-long experience with cannabis as a practitioner, teacher, and guide, Stephen shares the key guidelines for connecting with cannabis as an advanced spiritual ally. Cannabis is a remarkable yet tricky tool that can be beneficial, harmful, or of no use at all — depending on intention, knowledge, and skill. There’s much to learn about this powerful plant and Stephen’s guide is an illuminating resource.
Timeless Plant Ally Meditations
Video Teaching From Stephen Gray
Along with his teaching, writing, and organizing work for plant medicine conferences, Stephen has been leading spiritually focused cannabis ceremonies for 15 years. These ceremonies include several varieties of guided meditations, visualizations, and sound journeying that participants have found very beneficial. In this video, Stephen will lead you through some of his favorite guided practices that you can return to again and again — with or without the gentle assistance of our friendly plant ally.
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven Pre-Recorded 90-Minute Modules
Experience a unique opportunity to learn from author and ceremony guide Stephen Gray — from the comfort of your own home. Each session includes a streaming video and guide you to work with cannabis skillfully and reverently as a catalyst for deep personal and collective transformation.
Seven Transcripts of Sessions
You’ll also receive transcriptions. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, The Sacred Way of Cannabis
We feel honored that Stephen Gray has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online course. This is a unique opportunity to learn from an author and ceremony guide whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about embracing cannabis as a sacred medicine for awakening, creativity, ceremony, and inner peace, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
It’s not too late to join the Journey!
While the original enrollment deadline has passed, you’re still welcome to join us with a few important notes:
- Non-Refundable: All sales are final.
- Course Access: You’ll get instant access to all past modules and course materials.
- Catch Up First: Please review previous sessions before asking questions, as they may have been addressed.
- Live Class Replays: Miss a live session? Replays will be available within 48 hours.
Your Satisfaction Is 100% Guaranteed!
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE The Sacred Way of Cannabis — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form 14 days from your date of purchase and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
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About Stephen Gray
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Stephen Gray has been traveling spiritual and sacred medicine pathways as a student and teacher for close to 50 years. He is a writer, educator, podcaster, psychedelic conference organizer, speaker, and cannabis ceremony leader.
Stephen is the author/editor of three books, including the popular Cannabis and Spirituality: An Explorer’s Guide to an Ancient Plant Spirit Ally, and How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out.
For the past 13 years, Stephen has been the creative director of the iconic Spirit Plant Medicine Conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Since 2020, he has been interviewing leading influencers in psychedelics and consciousness transformation for the StephenGray Vision YouTube channel and related audio podcast formats.