After my Hare Krishna researches I wondered if any other cult leaders or gurus had anything useful to say on the issue of snuff. I wasn’t really expecting to find anything further - but, as chance would have it, I came across the following passage from the Book of Secrets by Osho (The-Guru-Formerly-Known-As-Bhagwan-Shree-Rajneesh). I mean, I know where he’s coming from… I’m just not sure I like where he’s going with this line of reasoning: "In a sneeze, thinking stops. That is why so many people like snuff. It unburdens them, their minds feel more relaxed because for a moment thinking stops. Snuff gives them a glimpse of no-thinking. Through snuff, when the sneeze comes, they are not minds, they become bodies. The head disappears for a single moment, but it feels good. If you become habituated to snuff, it is very difficult to leave it. It is more penetrating a habit than smoking; smoking is nothing before it. It penetrates more deeply, because smoking is conscious and sneezing is unconscious. To leave snuff is more difficult than to leave smoking. And smoking can be changed, substitutes can be found – but there is no substitute for snuff, because, really, sneezing is a very unique phenomenon in the body. The only other thing that can be compared and which has been compared is the sex act. Those who think in terms of physiology, they say that the sex act is just sneezing through the sex organ – and the similarity is there. It is not one hundred percent right because much more is involved in sex, greater things are involved in it. But in the beginning, just in the beginning, the similarity is there. Something is thrown out from the nose and you feel relieved, and something is thrown out from the sex organ and you feel relieved. And both are non-voluntary."Osho, The Book of Secrets, Chapter 41

This is why I am not a follower. I make my own path :-B

@Hapax, with all due respect to you, I would not call what you quoted a “line of reasoning.” I personally found no “reasoning” in it. Rajneesh was well known for his contradictions and hypocrisy. He was also well known for being an expert on things he knew nothing about… His “knowledge” of snuff is an obvious example of the latter. That much is abundantly clear.

And as anyone who takes snuff knows, sneezing stops very quickly when you become used to snuff. Sneezing is the caricature perception of people that don’t take snuff - or know anything about it.

Sneezing is my least favorite thing about snuff

I’ve learned very quickly that if you think about what you’re doing while snuffing you won’t enjoy it as much as just simply snuffing. Anything can be a meditation and snuffing is no exception. To be present in the act of snuffing *is* to be in a state of no-thinking, which really isn’t a state at all. Just to Be, no matter what you seem to be doing. The highest meditation.

I only sneeze when I use my 1888 bottle of Dr Marshall’s Catarrh Snuff. And I continue sneezing untli it is all out. I agree w Erik the Red. This is mostly nonsense.