Synopsis 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-centred 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. Steven 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
commonalties among these individuals in their approach to learning from
the plant world and outlines the specific steps involved.
this is an incredibly full book about a lost art - direct communication with nature.
in section one buhner looks at the scientific documentation of the
neural activity of the heart and the non-linear aspects of nature. in
section two he takes a more poetic and practical approach to opening
your perception of nature using the heart.
an incredibly liberating book - the exercises are wonderful and can
have extraordinary effects in reopening you to the world we live in.
a rich, dense experience of a book written from lived experience that repays a long slow relationship with it.
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