The first in-depth examination of the sacred underpinnings of the world of Native American medicinal herbalism - Reveals how shamans and healers "talk" with plants to discover their medicinal properties - Includes the prayers and medicine songs associated with each of the plants examined - By the author of The Secret Teachings of Plants As humans evolved on Earth they used plants for everything imaginable--food, weapons, baskets, clothes, shelter, and medicine. Indigenous peoples the world over have been able to gather knowledge of plant uses by communicating directly...
The first in-depth examination of the sacred underpinnings of the world of Native American medicinal herbalism - Reveals how shamans and healers "...
A hands-on approach to working with the healing powers of plant spirits - Explores the scientific basis underlying the practices of indigenous healers and shamans - Illuminates the matrix where plant intelligence and human intelligence join - Reveals that partnering with plants is an evolutionary imperative Indigenous healers and shamans have known since antiquity that plants possess a spirit essence that can communicate through light, sound, and vibration. Now scientific studies are verifying this understanding. Plant Spirit Healing reveals the power of plant spirits...
A hands-on approach to working with the healing powers of plant spirits - Explores the scientific basis underlying the practices of indigenous hea...
This could be the most important book you will read this year. Around the office at Chelsea Green it is referred to as the -pharmaceutical Silent Spring.- Well-known author, teacher, lecturer, and herbalist Stephen Harrod Buhner has produced a book that is certain to generate controversy. It consists of three parts:
A critique of technological medicine, and especially the dangers to the environment posed by pharmaceuticals and other synthetic substances that people use in connection with health care and personal body care.
A new look at Gaia...
This could be the most important book you will read this year. Around the office at Chelsea Green it is referred to as the -pharmaceutical Sile...
The first comprehensive work on nonfiction as an art form - Shows how nonfiction, especially how-to and self-help, can take on the same power and luminosity as great fiction - Develops processes to reliably induce the dreaming state from which all writing comes - Teaches the skill of analogical thinking that is the core perceptual tool for writers - Explores the subtle techniques of powerful writing, from inducing associational dreaming in the reader, to language symmetry, sound patterning, foreshadowing, feeling flow, and more Approaching writing as a sacred art, Stephen...
The first comprehensive work on nonfiction as an art form - Shows how nonfiction, especially how-to and self-help, can take on the same power and ...
With antibiotic-resistant infections on the rise, herbal remedies present a naturally effective alternative to standard antibiotics. Herbal expert Stephen Harrod Buhner explains the roots of antibiotic resistance, explores the value of herbal treatments, and provides in-depth profiles of 30 valuable plants, noting the proper dosages, potential side effects, and contraindications of each.
With antibiotic-resistant infections on the rise, herbal remedies present a naturally effective alternative to standard antibiotics. Herbal expert Ste...
A manual for opening the doors of perception and directly engaging the intelligence of the Natural World - Provides exercises to directly perceive and interact with the complex, living, self-organizing being that is Gaia - Reveals that every life form on Earth is highly intelligent and communicative - Examines the ecological function of invasive plants, bacterial resistance to antibiotics, psychotropic plants and fungi, and the human species In Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, Stephen Harrod Buhner reveals that all life forms on Earth possess intelligence,...
A manual for opening the doors of perception and directly engaging the intelligence of the Natural World - Provides exercises to directly perceive...
Lyme disease infects a minimum of 300,000 people per year in the United States and millions more throughout the rest of the world. Symptoms run from mild lethargy to severe arthritis to heart disease to incapacitating mental dysfunction. Although tests have improved over the past decade, they are still not completely reliable, and antibiotics are only partially effective. Up to thirty-five percent of those infected will not respond to antibiotic treatment or will relapse. The spirochetes that cause Lyme are stealth pathogens--they can hide within cells or alter their form so that our...
Lyme disease infects a minimum of 300,000 people per year in the United States and millions more throughout the rest of the world. Symptoms run fro...
Pflanzen haben eine Seele und heilende Kräfte. Sie spüren, wenn wir Hilfe brauchen. Und sie helfen uns, wenn wir sie darum bitten. Schon Goethe wusste das. Aber wie offenbaren sie sich uns?
Eine Antwort gibt "Die heilende Seele der Pflanzen", ein Buch der Gedanken und Gefühle. Wie eine poetische Wegbeschreibung nimmt es uns mit auf eine Reise in die geheimnisvolle Welt der Pflanzen. Und wie ein Sachbuch vermittelt es wichtiges Wissen über die Probleme, die unser Überleben gefährden: Umweltzerstörung, resistente Bakterien, Luftverschmutzung, Krebs und Klimawandel. Der Mensch war...
Pflanzen haben eine Seele und heilende Kräfte. Sie spüren, wenn wir Hilfe brauchen. Und sie helfen uns, wenn wir sie darum bitten. Schon Goethe wuss...