The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature

Description

Reveals the use of direct perception in understanding Nature, medicinal
plants, and the healing of human disease • Explores the techniques used by
indigenous and Western peoples to learn directly from the plants themselves,
including those of Henry David Thoreau, Goethe, and Masanobu Fukuoka, author
of The One Straw Revolution • Contains leading-edge information on the heart
as an organ of perception 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. Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bear & Company (October 27, 2004)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 53
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #129,698 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #188 in Ecology (Books) #308 in Herbal Remedies (Books) #415 in Healing
• #188 in Ecology (Books)