The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of NatureSimon and Schuster, 27 oct. 2004 - 336 pages 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. |
Table des matières
The SelfOrganization of Life | |
The Energetics of Life | |
The Hear | |
Communication | |
Aisthesis | |
GATHERING KNOWLEDGE FROM THE HEART | |
The Taste of Wild Water | |
The Pregnant Point and the Mundus Imaginalis | |
The Fruitful Darkness | |
Interlude | |
Grains of Sand from Another Shore | |
Epilogue | |
Footnotes | |
Also by Stephen Harrad Buhner | |
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alterations awareness beating become begin behaviors Bioelectromagnetics biological blood body brain breathing BUCKMINSTER FULLER burst cells child coastline coherence communications complex consciousness DALE PENDELL deep deeper deeply detect disease dynamic Earth electrical electromagnetic field electromagnetic spectrum embedded emerge emotional encoded energy entrain everything experience external eyes feel flow focus fractal frequencies functioning GOETHE healing heart heart-field HENRY DAVID THOREAU hippocampus hormones human imagination JAGADIS CHANDRA BOSE JAMES HILLMAN Joseph Chilton Pearce linear mind living organisms living reality look lungs LUTHER BURBANK magnetic fields MASANOBU FUKUOKA McCraty meaning medicine mode of cognition Nature nervous system neurons nonlinear notice occurs organ of perception organ system oscillators patterns perceive person perturbations phenomenon physiological plant pregnant point pressure radio response ROBERT BLY self-organized systems sense sensitive sensory shape shift signals soul synchronize thing thinking tiny touch understand waves whole wild