| All ancient and indigenous peoples
insisted their knowledge of plant medicines came from the plants
themselves
and not through trial-and-error experimentation. Less well known is
that
many Western peoples made this same assertion. There are, in fact, two
modes of cognition available to all human beings -- the brain-based
linear
and the heart-based holistic. The heart-centered mode of perception can
be exceptionally accurate and detailed in its information gathering
capacities
if, as indigenous and ancient peoples asserted, the heart's ability as
an organ of perception is developed.
Author Stephen Harrod Buhner explores
this second mode of perception in great detail through the work of
numerous
remarkable people, from Luther Burbank, who cultivated the majority of
food plants we now take for granted, to the great German poet and
scientist
Goethe and his studies of the metamorphosis of plants. Buhner explores
the commonalities among these individuals in their approach to learning
from the plant world and outlines the specific steps involved. Readers
will gain the tools necessary to gather information directly from the
heart
of Nature, to directly learn the medicinal uses of plants, to engage in
diagnosis of disease, and to understand the soul-making process that
such
deep connection with the world engenders.
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The Secret Teachings
Of Plants
The Intelligence Of
The Heart In The Direct Perception Of Nature
by Stephen Harrod
Buhner
Bear & Company,
2004
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