Bryan Burns of Juniper Networks

They believe juniper smoke is holy.

These are Serphas lighting juniper branches.

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

And from where you're standing at 6,000 feet in the valley, it's an easy hike up to the mature pinyon and juniper forest through that knoll at the front at 7,600 feet.

But around the world, they go into trance in different ways, and in Pakistan, the way they do it is they burn juniper leaves and they sacrifice an animal, pour the blood of the animal on the leaves and then inhale the smoke.

They stand in so great dread of some of them, that when out at sea they are afraid to mention even their names, and carry dung, lime stone, juniper wood, and some other articles of the same nature in their boats, in order to terrify and prevent their too near approach.