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The Secret Teachings of Plants - The Intelligence of the Heart in Direct Perception to Nature (Paperback, Original)
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The Secret Teachings of Plants - The Intelligence of the Heart in Direct Perception to Nature (Paperback, Original)
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NEW SCIENCE / ECOLOGY "Of the truly great books appearing today The
Secret Teachings of Plants is easily the most rewarding I have had
the privilege of reading." Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The
Biology of Transcendence "A 'must read' for herbalists, healers,
gardeners, nature lovers, and anyone who has ever been moved to
tears by the everyday miracles of life." Susun S. Weed, author of
Healing Wise Mankind cannot survive without the nutritional and
medicinal properties of plants. The number of plant species on
Earth has been estimated at around 400,000, with many of these
species remaining unknown to humans. While only a fraction have
been identified and categorized by Western botanists, it is safe to
say that many of the plants unknown in the West are known to
indigenous people living within the plants' natural ranges. All
ancient and indigenous peoples insist their knowledge of plant
medicines comes from the plants themselves and not through
trial-and-error experimentation. Less well known is that these
plant teachings are at the basis of many of the modern discoveries
in both medicine and in plant foods. Throughout the world there is
a tradition of direct perception of nature through the
"intelligence of the heart." Recent discoveries in neuroscience
have proven that over 50 percent of the heart is comprised of
neural cells. The heart is, in fact, a brain in its own right.
Heart-centered perception can be exceptionally accurate and
detailed in its information gathering capacities, as indigenous and
ancient peoples assert. Stephen Harrod Buhner explores this
heart-centered mode of perception in great detail. He includes
leading-edge information on the physical mechanisms ofheart-based
cognition and explores the work of numerous remarkable people who
perceived the world with their hearts, including Henry David
Thoreau; Luther Burbank, who cultivated the majority of food plants
we now take for granted; George Washington Carver; Masanobu
Fukuoka, author of The One Straw Revolution; and the great German
poet and scientist Goethe, who studied the metamorphosis of plants.
Buhner shows us how these great thinkers achieved a direct
perception of nature using the cognitive abilities of the heart. He
provides the knowledge and techniques necessary to develop
heart-based perception, which is our birthright. He teaches us how
to learn the medicinal uses of plants directly from the plants
themselves and to understand the soul-making process that such deep
connection with the world engenders. STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER is an
Earth Poet and senior researcher for the Foundation for Gaian
Studies. He lectures 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. He lives in Braintree, Vermont.
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