The Secret Teachings Of Plants

Ancient and indigenous peoples have insisted their knowledge of plant medicines came from the plants themselves, perceived through a heart-centered mode of perception, not trial-and-error experimentation. Author Stephen Harrod Buhner explores this heart-centered mode of perception, helping readers to learn about the medicinal uses of plants, and how to gather information directly from the heart of Nature.

“Buhner’s writings are a powerful call for people to work together to restore the sacredness of Earth.”<br />

A Note to the Reader

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Introduction

1

(5)

SYSTOLE OF NATURE AND THE HEART

Prologue to Part One

6

(10)

Section One: Nature

1. The Nonlinearity of Nature

16

(17)

2. The Self-Organization of Life

33

(16)

3. The Energetics of Life

49

(21)

Section Two: The Heart

4. The Physical Heart: The Heart as an Organ of the Body

70

(19)

5. The Emotional Heart: The Heart as an Organ of Perception and Communication

89

(27)

6. The Spiritual Heart: Aisthesis

116

(8)

DIASTOLE GATHERING KNOWLEDGE FROM THE HEART OF THE WORLD

Prologue to Part Two

124

(8)

Section One: Veriditas

7. The Door into Nature

132

(5)

8. The Necessity for Acuity of Perception

137

(10)

9. Feeling with the Heart

147

Section Two: The Taste of Wild Water

10. Gathering Knowledge from the Heart of the World

164

(18)

11. The Pregnant Point and the Mundus Imaginalis

182

(20)

Section Three: The Fruitful Darkness

12. Depth Diagnosis and the Healing of Human Disease

202

(19)

Interlude

221

(5)

13. The Importance of Rigorous Self-Examination and the Necessity for Moral Development

226

(28)

Section Four: Grains of Sand from Another Shore

14. Reading the Text of the World: The Geography of Meaning and the Making of the Soul

254

(19)

Epilogue

273

(2)

Appendix: Exercises for Refining the Heart as an Organ of Perception

275

(15)

Bibliography with Commentary: The Wisdom of the Earth Poets

290

(18)

Notes

308

(3)

Index

311

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The Secret Teachings Of Plants

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