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Alma Verde: Chamanismo botanico para la sanacion espiritual
This extraordinary book explores the ancient tradition of healing through the Contaplus ritu plants. The author discovered that this is the active ingredient in the medicine of indigenous cultures worldwide. To communicate with the spirit of a plant, the shaman asks you to heal your patient. In these pages, Eliot Cowan not only describes the shamanism Botanical Garden but tells us to directly communicate with the Green soul of our planet, plants that surround us. Other shamans interviewed by the author also reveals their ways of working spiritually with plants.
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1991
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October 21, 2018
The writing style is like Carlos Castaneda's annoying dialogue rambling between a student and a teacher. It's a mesh mash of the Chinese 5 elements, a bit about the plants, and other irrelevant topics. The last three interview at the end of the book made it enjoyable.
The author should have just written this as an article and moved on. But writes a book on his education from the Amazonians that plants and nature have Spirits and are people! My God...seriously? It makes me wonder where did some white people grow up to believe nature is dead and inert.
The following are quotes from the Amazon people (not the author):
"There is only one active ingredient in planet medicines--friendship." (Friendship between the plant spirit and the patient)
"...plants have spirit, and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirits can heal the deepest reaches of the heart and soul"
"as the plantain spirit told me, they [plants] can do nothing unless they are asked"
"He was describing a certain aspect of the human condition. He was emphasizing the eyes, telling me that the eyes of a person are the key to understanding them, as well as a clue to how much protection I need for myself"
" I couldn't understand who he was unless I could see and sense the spirits around him that were affecting him. Unless we know what powers are affecting a man, we can't really know who that man is"
The author should have just written this as an article and moved on. But writes a book on his education from the Amazonians that plants and nature have Spirits and are people! My God...seriously? It makes me wonder where did some white people grow up to believe nature is dead and inert.
The following are quotes from the Amazon people (not the author):
"There is only one active ingredient in planet medicines--friendship." (Friendship between the plant spirit and the patient)
"...plants have spirit, and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirits can heal the deepest reaches of the heart and soul"
"as the plantain spirit told me, they [plants] can do nothing unless they are asked"
"He was describing a certain aspect of the human condition. He was emphasizing the eyes, telling me that the eyes of a person are the key to understanding them, as well as a clue to how much protection I need for myself"
" I couldn't understand who he was unless I could see and sense the spirits around him that were affecting him. Unless we know what powers are affecting a man, we can't really know who that man is"
January 2, 2016
This is a fantastic introduction to the world of plant spirits and healing. Elliot's candid and straight forward style is pleasant and informative. His deep sense of reverence, humility and wisdom easily draw the reader into this world of healing and magic without a whole lot of flake or bullshit. This book was recommended through the reading list of a Shaman that I work with. Elliot also says some really important things about contemporary masculinity (and the inherent masculinity within each of us) and a deep need for healing and harmony. There were a number of very sharp and insightful gems of wisdom and insight that I happily carried forward. I would really like to study with him when he winds his way back to Ontario. I give it a hearty two thumbs up!
January 20, 2023
I listened to the audiobook version. Most of the stories are captivating and enlightening. I liked the worksheets? Questionnaires? It is inspiring and I will continue to look into plant medicine. I'm very interested in it. I do wish there was more of "how to" in here.
May 15, 2014
This is a must-read for those interested in Indigenous Wisdom. Mr. Cowan tells many stories about his own path to becoming a healer, including his studies with the Huichol shamans of Mexico. Fascinating and heart-opening, it is a great bridge to pursuing one's own healing. I just finished the new edition, and really enjoyed the extra material.
March 16, 2016
Awesome!
I truly enjoyed this book, extremely inspirational and educational. I only hope I too can connect with plant spirits. This book really makes you think about life beyond yourself and to realise ,we make our own life way more difficult than we need too.
I truly enjoyed this book, extremely inspirational and educational. I only hope I too can connect with plant spirits. This book really makes you think about life beyond yourself and to realise ,we make our own life way more difficult than we need too.
July 4, 2021
The guy seems nice and knowledgeable. And the stories he recounts are enjoyable. But you won't find any plants recipes or prescriptions.
November 7, 2015
This was a fantastic read! I've had burning questions in my heart for many of my years of herbal studies and this book essentially answered every single one! I asked for a teacher, and it came in the form of a book. Who knew?!
One of the many things that I am taking away from this book is that when it comes to plant spirit medicine, there are no hard and fast rules about how to go about communicating with the spirits, but rather to just be with the plants and ask them what to do.
Eliot Cowan also addresses the inner conversation that many of us have that could possibly hinder one's growth in our healing practices, where we might have received direction from the spirit, but our inner dialogue wonders how we know, and begin thinking "this will sound crazy"; thinking like that. He says to ask the plant, be ready to receive the answer in any way it may show up, and then test it ourselves. It's what I thought on my own, but just the validation that this idea was good is helpful for me. I really liked the fact that one doesn't need fancy rituals, fancy tools, or even the ability to call the plants by the scientific names we've given them. They have their own names.
The ways each shaman or healer receives his power is different just like the way they may use the plants - even the same plant may be used in many different ways, sometimes in a way that contradicts the scientific understanding of the chemical constituents and what science sees as relevant. And because of this, these healers have tremendous ability to heal in a way that baffles many scientists. The whole subject is contrary to most typical thought, especially western thought.
As a Reiki practictioner for over a decade and a student of herbal studies for most of my life, this book just resonates with me on so many levels of understanding.
I think if you're wanting to learn more about plant spirits, this is a great book. Likewise, if you have a fascination for herbs, plant healing, and other modalities of alternative healing, this could be a fantastic option for you.
One of the many things that I am taking away from this book is that when it comes to plant spirit medicine, there are no hard and fast rules about how to go about communicating with the spirits, but rather to just be with the plants and ask them what to do.
Eliot Cowan also addresses the inner conversation that many of us have that could possibly hinder one's growth in our healing practices, where we might have received direction from the spirit, but our inner dialogue wonders how we know, and begin thinking "this will sound crazy"; thinking like that. He says to ask the plant, be ready to receive the answer in any way it may show up, and then test it ourselves. It's what I thought on my own, but just the validation that this idea was good is helpful for me. I really liked the fact that one doesn't need fancy rituals, fancy tools, or even the ability to call the plants by the scientific names we've given them. They have their own names.
The ways each shaman or healer receives his power is different just like the way they may use the plants - even the same plant may be used in many different ways, sometimes in a way that contradicts the scientific understanding of the chemical constituents and what science sees as relevant. And because of this, these healers have tremendous ability to heal in a way that baffles many scientists. The whole subject is contrary to most typical thought, especially western thought.
As a Reiki practictioner for over a decade and a student of herbal studies for most of my life, this book just resonates with me on so many levels of understanding.
I think if you're wanting to learn more about plant spirits, this is a great book. Likewise, if you have a fascination for herbs, plant healing, and other modalities of alternative healing, this could be a fantastic option for you.
May 11, 2021
Easy to read, engaging, and thought-provoking. He doesn't actually tell you how to do plant spirit medicine, but he tells many stories of people who do.
August 23, 2021
I really wanted to like this, but something about it didn't feel authentic. The message about the power of plants and nature is positive, but halfway through it just wasn't doing it for me.
September 9, 2020
Book Review – Plant Spirit Medicine: A Journey into the Healing Wisdom of Plants by Eliot Cowan, Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2014.
Plant Spirit Medicine was recommended to me by an herbalist friend, Jennifer Tucker. With my years of practice and teaching hypnosis and ecstatic trance I have been guided by many spirits, ancestral spirits including the spirits of animals, birds, reptiles, and insects. Several years ago, I realized that what was missing from my journeys into the world of the spirits were the spirits of the Earth’s flora. Thus, I began sitting with plants, asking them to become my spirit guides. This direction diverged from the work of many of my herbalist friends, because, like with my animal spirit guides, the plants do not need to be ingested to learn and benefit from them. As with my animal spirit guides the plants were very ready to open themselves to me. I still have so much to learn, and Eliot Cowan’s exceptional book has opened many new doors to me. For him the spirit of the plant is most central in his work as a healer.
In Plant Spirit Medicine Cowan does not address the medicinal powers of specific plants but offers many fascinating stories of calling upon the spirits of the plants and how these spirits bring about the healing of those who come to him. While listening to the plant spirits in an altered-state of dreaming and waking visions, the plants are very ready to offer him direction.
Cowan was raised in the conventional American way of life, but upon graduating from college he realized he knew nothing about the earth. Feeling an urgency to learn he left for a farm in Vermont where he began to take an interest in sustainability and herbal medicine, an interest that led to his interest in the spirits and the restoration of the ancient ways of healing. In this pursuit he has learned from a number of indigenous healers. He evetually became an apprentice to don Guadalupe Gonzalez Rios, a Huichol shaman of Mexico who eventually performed a ritual to make Cowan a guide to other shamanic apprentices in the Huichol tradition.
Though it is most appropriate to identify the indigenous healers by their tribe, e.g. the Huichol, I am attracted to using the broader term of indigenous when appropriate because of the word “dig” imbedded in it, digging in the Earth for our sustainability. The high and unsustainable expense of our high-tech medicine is leading us to return to the effective ways of the traditional and indigenous healers, elders who rely upon the plants, animals, rocks, water, fire, wind and the entire natural world who know and love us as grandchildren.
Cowan tells many powerful and fascinating stories of listening to dreams and other visioning experiences of plants and their spirits, experiences that bring us into a new yet ancient world of healing, of healing the imbalances of life, the causes of illness. Our dualistic lives are centered on that which is us and ours vs. that which is not us and not ours. This dualism isolates us from the interdependency of all that is of the Earth, a separation that brings us to violence and is leading our demise. Though this book was published in 2014, well before the election of Donald Trump, this separation and violence are now so vividly evident. Cowan hangs on to the belief that at least some humans will survive into the new age of sustainability, health, balance, and living in oneness with all that is of the Earth, but there are many who do not hold this vision and will not survive. Cowan beautifully shows us the path for this survival, a path of again listening to, learning from, and valuing the spirits of the Earth’s flora.
Over the last few years I have read about the Chinese five elements: fire, earth, metal, wood, and water, or more commonly the four elements of fire, earth, air and water as they relate to herbal medicine. I have not resonated with this model but now find that Cowan’s spiritual descriptions of these five elements make much sense. The heat of fire, heat coming from the sun, sitting around campfires, and from other sources brings vitality and passion to life. Humanity lives by the fire in many ways, in cooking, eating, laughter, care for children, as well as in listening to the elders. Plants capture heat and light from the sun. Fire controls the activities of body, mind and spirit, producing joy, happiness, pleasure, laughter, relationships and sexuality. The lack of fire brings illness to the heart and mind.
Earth provides nourishment, security, identity, mother’s breasts, and intimacy to relationships. Mothers need strength, and we all need Mother Earth’s nourishment to overcome the stresses of life. The spleen and pancreas provide the transportation of nourishment from the stomach to the cells, bringing sugar to the cells to give us energy and keep us healthy. Earth brings us the nurturing plants upon which we depend.
Metal shows us what is valuable in life. Cowan’s mentor, don Guadalupe, acknowledged that everything of value came from his father. He showed his son the way through the world, the ways of cumulating spiritual wealth, of not hording possessions.
The mysteries of water harbored in the spirit of the kidney are pooled by the bladder spirit. All the juices of life, e.g. adrenaline we call upon in danger, and the digestive fluids for food that we eat, are of the element of water. The streams and rivers, the flowing blood of Mother Earth, bring us life.
Wood seen in the growing tree needs room, sunlight, water, minerals and soil nutrients, the same as our needs as humans. But our current economic system is destroying the forests as well as our lives. Besides the illnesses caused by the imbalances in these five elements Cowan addresses two other imbalances, the imbalance of being possessed by some unhealthy spirit and the imbalance of our male and female aspects, an imbalance that affects the relationship between husband and wife.
Though this book does not focus on the use of specific medicinal herbs, Cowan provides a chapter describing several herbs that he finds useful in bring balance to these imbalances: the warmth of scarlet pimpernel for imbalances of fire, and the soft and nurturing nature of mullein for imbalances of the earth. As a purifier of the soul, Plantain aids in treating imbalances of metal. To treat problems related to the element of water, Cowan uses the stream orchid, Epipactis gigantea, native to western North America. For wood Cowan uses the flexible willow to treat rigidity and uptightness.
Besides these five plants Cowan finds several other herbs indispensable in addressing other issues beyond those of the five elements: mugwort for opening the acupuncture meridians; anemone for a person who is preoccupied by worldly problems; St. Johnwort for binding together wounds including the wound of depression; and the Southwest desert plant filaree as a spiritual messenger when seeking answers to questions.
The final four chapters are of what Cowan has learned from four of his mentors, don Enrique Salmon and don Lucio Campos of Mexico, Siri Gian Singh Khalsa from West Africa, and Grandma Bertha Grove from the Southern Ute Reservation. With each teacher Cowan’s questions pursue his interest in their uses of the spirits of plants as opposed to the prescriptive uses of the plants as used by most contemporary herbalists and high-tech medicine. These valuable interviews were very enlightening. In conclusion Cowan again tells us of the importance of ritual for treating each person individually over and above using the medicinal herbs in a prescriptive manner. He teaches his ways at his Blue Deer Center in Margaretville, NY, only 48 miles from where I live in Ulster County, New York.
In my practice and teaching of ecstatic trance I rely on the shamanic body postures as researched by Felicitas Goodman, postures that give direction to the trance experience, offering a viable alternative to Cowan’s eye-opening ways of journeying with the spirits of plants. I have previously written about these ecstatic postures and find four of the ecstatic postures exceptionally useful in medicinal plant journeying. I am eager to find my way to Cowan’s Blue Deer Center once the social distancing of the COVID virus has subsided to expand my ways of journeying with the spirits.
Plant Spirit Medicine was recommended to me by an herbalist friend, Jennifer Tucker. With my years of practice and teaching hypnosis and ecstatic trance I have been guided by many spirits, ancestral spirits including the spirits of animals, birds, reptiles, and insects. Several years ago, I realized that what was missing from my journeys into the world of the spirits were the spirits of the Earth’s flora. Thus, I began sitting with plants, asking them to become my spirit guides. This direction diverged from the work of many of my herbalist friends, because, like with my animal spirit guides, the plants do not need to be ingested to learn and benefit from them. As with my animal spirit guides the plants were very ready to open themselves to me. I still have so much to learn, and Eliot Cowan’s exceptional book has opened many new doors to me. For him the spirit of the plant is most central in his work as a healer.
In Plant Spirit Medicine Cowan does not address the medicinal powers of specific plants but offers many fascinating stories of calling upon the spirits of the plants and how these spirits bring about the healing of those who come to him. While listening to the plant spirits in an altered-state of dreaming and waking visions, the plants are very ready to offer him direction.
Cowan was raised in the conventional American way of life, but upon graduating from college he realized he knew nothing about the earth. Feeling an urgency to learn he left for a farm in Vermont where he began to take an interest in sustainability and herbal medicine, an interest that led to his interest in the spirits and the restoration of the ancient ways of healing. In this pursuit he has learned from a number of indigenous healers. He evetually became an apprentice to don Guadalupe Gonzalez Rios, a Huichol shaman of Mexico who eventually performed a ritual to make Cowan a guide to other shamanic apprentices in the Huichol tradition.
Though it is most appropriate to identify the indigenous healers by their tribe, e.g. the Huichol, I am attracted to using the broader term of indigenous when appropriate because of the word “dig” imbedded in it, digging in the Earth for our sustainability. The high and unsustainable expense of our high-tech medicine is leading us to return to the effective ways of the traditional and indigenous healers, elders who rely upon the plants, animals, rocks, water, fire, wind and the entire natural world who know and love us as grandchildren.
Cowan tells many powerful and fascinating stories of listening to dreams and other visioning experiences of plants and their spirits, experiences that bring us into a new yet ancient world of healing, of healing the imbalances of life, the causes of illness. Our dualistic lives are centered on that which is us and ours vs. that which is not us and not ours. This dualism isolates us from the interdependency of all that is of the Earth, a separation that brings us to violence and is leading our demise. Though this book was published in 2014, well before the election of Donald Trump, this separation and violence are now so vividly evident. Cowan hangs on to the belief that at least some humans will survive into the new age of sustainability, health, balance, and living in oneness with all that is of the Earth, but there are many who do not hold this vision and will not survive. Cowan beautifully shows us the path for this survival, a path of again listening to, learning from, and valuing the spirits of the Earth’s flora.
Over the last few years I have read about the Chinese five elements: fire, earth, metal, wood, and water, or more commonly the four elements of fire, earth, air and water as they relate to herbal medicine. I have not resonated with this model but now find that Cowan’s spiritual descriptions of these five elements make much sense. The heat of fire, heat coming from the sun, sitting around campfires, and from other sources brings vitality and passion to life. Humanity lives by the fire in many ways, in cooking, eating, laughter, care for children, as well as in listening to the elders. Plants capture heat and light from the sun. Fire controls the activities of body, mind and spirit, producing joy, happiness, pleasure, laughter, relationships and sexuality. The lack of fire brings illness to the heart and mind.
Earth provides nourishment, security, identity, mother’s breasts, and intimacy to relationships. Mothers need strength, and we all need Mother Earth’s nourishment to overcome the stresses of life. The spleen and pancreas provide the transportation of nourishment from the stomach to the cells, bringing sugar to the cells to give us energy and keep us healthy. Earth brings us the nurturing plants upon which we depend.
Metal shows us what is valuable in life. Cowan’s mentor, don Guadalupe, acknowledged that everything of value came from his father. He showed his son the way through the world, the ways of cumulating spiritual wealth, of not hording possessions.
The mysteries of water harbored in the spirit of the kidney are pooled by the bladder spirit. All the juices of life, e.g. adrenaline we call upon in danger, and the digestive fluids for food that we eat, are of the element of water. The streams and rivers, the flowing blood of Mother Earth, bring us life.
Wood seen in the growing tree needs room, sunlight, water, minerals and soil nutrients, the same as our needs as humans. But our current economic system is destroying the forests as well as our lives. Besides the illnesses caused by the imbalances in these five elements Cowan addresses two other imbalances, the imbalance of being possessed by some unhealthy spirit and the imbalance of our male and female aspects, an imbalance that affects the relationship between husband and wife.
Though this book does not focus on the use of specific medicinal herbs, Cowan provides a chapter describing several herbs that he finds useful in bring balance to these imbalances: the warmth of scarlet pimpernel for imbalances of fire, and the soft and nurturing nature of mullein for imbalances of the earth. As a purifier of the soul, Plantain aids in treating imbalances of metal. To treat problems related to the element of water, Cowan uses the stream orchid, Epipactis gigantea, native to western North America. For wood Cowan uses the flexible willow to treat rigidity and uptightness.
Besides these five plants Cowan finds several other herbs indispensable in addressing other issues beyond those of the five elements: mugwort for opening the acupuncture meridians; anemone for a person who is preoccupied by worldly problems; St. Johnwort for binding together wounds including the wound of depression; and the Southwest desert plant filaree as a spiritual messenger when seeking answers to questions.
The final four chapters are of what Cowan has learned from four of his mentors, don Enrique Salmon and don Lucio Campos of Mexico, Siri Gian Singh Khalsa from West Africa, and Grandma Bertha Grove from the Southern Ute Reservation. With each teacher Cowan’s questions pursue his interest in their uses of the spirits of plants as opposed to the prescriptive uses of the plants as used by most contemporary herbalists and high-tech medicine. These valuable interviews were very enlightening. In conclusion Cowan again tells us of the importance of ritual for treating each person individually over and above using the medicinal herbs in a prescriptive manner. He teaches his ways at his Blue Deer Center in Margaretville, NY, only 48 miles from where I live in Ulster County, New York.
In my practice and teaching of ecstatic trance I rely on the shamanic body postures as researched by Felicitas Goodman, postures that give direction to the trance experience, offering a viable alternative to Cowan’s eye-opening ways of journeying with the spirits of plants. I have previously written about these ecstatic postures and find four of the ecstatic postures exceptionally useful in medicinal plant journeying. I am eager to find my way to Cowan’s Blue Deer Center once the social distancing of the COVID virus has subsided to expand my ways of journeying with the spirits.
December 26, 2025
Kind of off-putting to me as female reader. The writing is very masculine and rather egotistic. I guess I usually read spiritual books by female authors, and of course I don’t mind reading spiritual books by male authors, it’s valuable to have the male perspective, but the references to erection, ejaculation, fantasizing of cheating on his wife, I just cannot relate to this stuff, I was considering studying this book with the online program but disappointingly it’s no longer resonating. I’m half way through this and it kind of feels like he has all the secrets about plant spirit medicine but he’s unwilling or unable to share it. This is not a self help book, in what I’ve read so far there are no steps to accessing your own plant spirit medicine. As a non-indigenous person I’m just kind of left wondering (alone) what the plant spirit medicine is for me. He only talks of a select few countries in the book, mine is not included. I have questions and no answer.
January 24, 2024
A FANTASTIC read. There is so much incredible knowledge within this book, and I've noticed and felt the shift in how I approach my practice as a pagan and intuitive as a result of Eliot's teachings within here. I've quoted so much from this book over the last few months as I've worked my way through it, and am at a loss for words to truly describe the incredible impact it's had on me. If you're even remotely inclined towards plants, herbalism, and a connection to nature, I urge you to read this book. To quote another of my favorites, Wheels of Life by Anodea Judith PhD, "I urge the reader to suspend disbelief within whatever parameters they find comfortable, jump aboard the mystic bandwagon of personal experience and judge their truths from within. After all, this is little more than what we do in reading a good adventure novel or love story. Consider this book a little of each."
September 16, 2024
3.5
at first this book resonated deeply, but as it progressed that feeling was marred by outdated attitudes towards Indigenous people...i don't doubt that Cowan worked in close relationship with Huichol healers to preserve and spread their methods of healing, and his deep reverence and respect for their knowledge is clear. i think i was just sometimes bothered by the way that he wrote about those relationships? in general, there is a lot of wisdom here and i know that it will shape my connection to herbalism and plant spirit healing as i continue to deepen my own relationships to plant spirits. will definitely need to circle back to this.
at first this book resonated deeply, but as it progressed that feeling was marred by outdated attitudes towards Indigenous people...i don't doubt that Cowan worked in close relationship with Huichol healers to preserve and spread their methods of healing, and his deep reverence and respect for their knowledge is clear. i think i was just sometimes bothered by the way that he wrote about those relationships? in general, there is a lot of wisdom here and i know that it will shape my connection to herbalism and plant spirit healing as i continue to deepen my own relationships to plant spirits. will definitely need to circle back to this.
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May 20, 2024This book was incredibly woo woo but I really liked the stories, and if you don’t want to take them literally they are wise parables about our connection and dependence on nature and plants. I found it so interesting the distinction between actually communicating with the plants vs assuming plants have specific uses we can extract from them…. Such a Western way of doing things and it’s so limiting. I appreciated the new perspective. There are a few lines and insights in here that blew my mind and I’ll be thinking about for a long time.
August 19, 2024
Definitive visionary and inspiring read. i am re-listening to the 2nd edition(?), Sounds True, 2014 - now available to Audible customers. I had the wonderful experience of psm workshops and brief mentorship at the end of the 1990s in the midwest. Many wonderful teachers, including Eliot Cowan, have passed on leaving a legacy of teachers and apprenticeship who continue to steward and hold 'good' planet relationship and community. I was heartened to read reviews that reflect a continuing interest and love for this work!
September 8, 2025
The message may be a little controversial for some. As he tells us his experiences and the experiences of other plant spirit practitioners, we get immersed in an esoteric world that takes some faith in the unknown, esoteric, and almost mythical in order to believe.
Regardless of how one feels about plant spirits, there is a clear environmental message here that can not be denied as relevant and extremely important, too.
Regardless of how one feels about plant spirits, there is a clear environmental message here that can not be denied as relevant and extremely important, too.
September 6, 2025
An affirming book about the shamanic use of various plants, not just psychedelics, cross culturally. However, 3/5 because the author reduces gender to culturally specific biased roles. These don’t exist on a spiritual plane and instead reflect the author’s limits and also serve to perpetuate and essentialize these biases. A disappointing lack of responsibility and discernment.
July 24, 2017
Exquisite. Just what I needed to hear at the moment. Beautiful stories and a beautiful connection to the world of plants. Absolutely joyous!
My edition had a different cover, and was apparently a second edition.
My edition had a different cover, and was apparently a second edition.
November 7, 2024
I’m reminded of a book I read when very young about a man who would sit in the chair and attempt to communicate with the ants invading his house.
Yes, every thing is alive, “we don’t know what they know” (Clarke, 1965)
Yes, every thing is alive, “we don’t know what they know” (Clarke, 1965)
January 23, 2025
Very interesting and enlightening! Thoroughly enjoyed the book. I am an avid gardener and believe that plants have spirits along with every living thing. I plan on planting healing plants this spring!
March 31, 2018
Not for the closeminded. Highly recommend it.
April 27, 2020
This is a well-written, beautiful book full of wisdom and stories.
July 7, 2022
one of my fav books!!!! yes to plant consciousness
October 3, 2022
Waste of eyeballs
August 8, 2023
An interesting view on plants.
March 26, 2024
Wow I really enjoyed this book! Made my life make more sense and u have many new ideas about plants 💗
January 27, 2025
This is very nice when it's talking about the plants themselves, but it kinda lost me when the author started harping on about women's breasts.
June 5, 2025
an interesting look at how the spirits of plants can help and heal, and how there can be a harmonic relationship with nature
September 11, 2025
Very interesting way of connecting to not only plants but the elements around you.
I got hooked to look into this matter a bit more.
I got hooked to look into this matter a bit more.
September 29, 2025
Some terminology is a bit dated but that's to be expected with the year, some really moving and profound ideas in here.
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