Revealing the importance of personal relationships to plant medicines as the foundation of an ecological approach to healing, this book takes readers on a step-by-step journey through the historical relationship that human beings have had with plant medicines during their long evolution on Earth.

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Few of us in the Western world know that the world of medicinal plant usage is a complex and ancient world. We have learned that our forefathers were ignorant and superstitious peoples but this could not be further from the truth. Ancient and indigenous peoples learned the usage of plants as medicine in ways strikingly different from what we in the West call science. Within the indigenous world plants were experienced as having intelligence and a soul and it was the plants themselves that taught human beings how to use them as medicine. Oddly enough this form of learning was consistent throughout the world. Even more odd the uses our indigenous ancestors found for plants have been verified by modern science. The great truth in this is that there are other wayhs of information gathering about the Universe than those we have learned in this culture. To ancient peoples all things were created out of a central sacred substance. Everything carried a bit of that great soul within it. As such all things were related and could communicate when need arose. The world of sacred plant medicine is a journey into the techniques and experiences of our ancestors. It is a journey into a different way of experiencing the world in which we live - a way that was common for thousands of years - a way that worked well and brought to human beings the knowledge of how plants can heal and how plants can help us as spiritual teachers. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This review is from: Sacred Plant Medicine: An Introduction to Rituals, Ceremonies and Indigenous Perspectives in the Sacred Use of Plants (Paperback)

This book is the best book I have ever seen on sacred herbalism. Unlike Eliot Cowan's book, this book goes into much needed detail and tells how to physically heal a person with a plant as well as emotionally. Stephen Buhner has very good control over his writing and he makes the reading fun as well as educational. I suggest this book to those who want to have an in detail knowledge about herbs and the spiritual healing that plants can have on all of us.

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Sacred Plant Medicine: Explorations in the Practice of Indigenous Herbalism [Illustrated] (Paperback)

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