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?The first in-depth analysis of the processes used by Native Americans to communicate with the plant world for the purposes of healing human illness. It is a work long overdue by an author who himself ?talks? with plants as Native Americans have always done.?
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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 with plants and honouring the sacred relationship between themselves and the plant world. In "Sacred Plant Medicine", Stephen Harrod Buhner, looks at the long-standing relationship between indigenous peoples and plants, and examines the techniques and states of mind these cultures use to communicate with the plant world. He explores the sacred dimension of plant and human interactions and the territory where plants are an expression of Spirit. For each healing plant described in the book, Buhner presents medicinal uses, preparatory guidelines and ceremonial elements such as prayers and medicine songs associated with its use.
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a wonderful book!, April 9 2007
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This review is from: Sacred Plant Medicine (Paperback)
In Sacred Plant Medicine, Stephen Buhner explores the processes whereby indigenous peoples throughout the world learned the use of plant medicines. The book is a sensitive and deep look at an uncommon subject, the sacredness of plants within indigenous cosmologies, how those plants interacted with human beings, and how human beings made relationship with them in order to learn their medicinal and spiritual uses. Indigenous peoples were clear, and Buhner's first hand accounts bear this out, they did not learn the uses of plant medicines through trial and error but directly from the plants themselves. This book is an important companion to Buhner's other books: Lost Language of Plants, and The Secret Teachings of Plants. Each of them look at the intelligence of Nature, especially that of plants, in close detail, each from a different perspective. Sacred Plant Medicine develops a map of the territory of plant intelligence and the human interaction with it by focusing on the earliest and most basic human form of that contact between differing intelligences. Lost Language of Plants approaches it from a look at the deep ecological interactions of plant chemicals as one specific language of plant communication, Secret Teachings explores the heart as the specific organ of cognition behind understanding plant and Nature contact and communication. All three books are essential, this one is a delight. Highly recommended.
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Exactly what I was looking for, April 12 2011
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This review is from: Sacred Plant Medicine (Paperback)
It took me years to start to find the kinds of books and material I have wanted to pursue. If you don't have a personal contact with a medicine man or shaman in a traditional earth based tribe, I think this is you best way to access material that is quickly being lost to humankind. I hope more people will read this kind of material to help safe the Earth and our relationship with it before it is too late.
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Wonderful Book!, Jan 6 2011
By DJ Martin "Author of Herbs: Medicinal, Magica... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sacred Plant Medicine (Paperback)
By detailing his journey of the discovery of plant medicine to heal himself, Mr. Buhner gives the reader a chance to look within to see if perhaps that path might not help him, too. It goes far beyond the "for this, X tribe takes this" approach found in many Native American herbals.This book put into eloquent words what I've been trying to tell people for years ... if you sit with a plant and quiet your mind, you will eventually hear it speak. It will tell you of its medicine. The descriptions of the ceremonies and the songs for the herbs are just icing on the cake.
Highly recommended ... if Native American herbalism interests you. If all you're looking for is 'for this problem, take this herb', this book is not for you.
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