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ANCIENT PEOPLES
ANTIBIOTICS
Author_Stephen Harrod Buhner
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ETHNOBOTANY
HERBAL HEALING
HERBAL THERAPY
HERBALISM
HUMAN DISEASE
INDIGENOUS
KNOWLEDGE
LOST LANGUAGE
MEDICINAL
METAPHYSICS
NATURAL ANTIBIOTICS
NATURAL SCIENCE
NEW SCIENCE
ONE STRAW
PERCEPTION
PLANTS
REVOLUTION
SPANISH LANGUAGE
UNDERSTANDING NATURE
Product details
- ISBN 9781591430353
- Weight: 455g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Oct 2004
- Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Stephen Harrod Buhner (1952–2022) was an Earth Poet and senior researcher for the Foundation for Gaian Studies. He lectured throughout the United States on herbal medicine, the sacredness of plants, and the intelligence of Nature. He is the author of nine works of nonfiction and one book of poetry, including the award-winning The Lost Language of Plants and Sacred Plant Medicine.
