Plant Spirit Shamanism

✍ Scribed by Heaven, Ross

• Book ID: 110504584
• Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Plant Spirit Shamanism takes readers into realms that defy rational logic and scientific theory, showing graphically that we humans are not the only intelligent life on this planet. From their extensive travels to indigenous cultures that understand life very differently from those in the ’developed’ world, the authors reveal a wealth of plant knowledge that has been lost to Western civilization. This book is both a fascinating read and a considerable challenge to the orthodox mind."—(Leo Rutherford, author of The Way of Shamanism and Your Shamanic Path) In Plant Spirit Shamanism, Ross Heaven and Howard G. Charing explore the use of one of the major allies of shamans for healing, seeing, dreaming, and empowerment—plant spirits. After observing great similarities in the use of plants among shamans throughout the world, they discovered the reason behind these similarities: Rather than dealing with the "medical properties" of the plants or...