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Plant Spirit Medicine: The Healing Power of Plants |  | Author: Eliot Cowan
Publisher: Granite Publishing
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Rating:  23 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 164
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1893183114
Dewey Decimal Number: 615
EAN: 9781893183117
ASIN: 1893183114
Publication Date: January 1, 1991
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Ancient shamanic practice compelled the magician-healer first to make contact with the spirit of the plant to ask for its help before administering the herbal cure. This practice is alive today in Mexico among the traditional Indian shaman healers-principally the elder Huichol Indian shaman and plant spirit healer Don Guadalupe Gonzales Rios. Elliot Cowan reveals these ancient practices and guides the reader in the effective use of the wild herb plants in the area in which he or she lives. the result is a wonderful psychic and spiritual approach to holistic healing --This text refers to the paperback edition of this title
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Magical May 3, 2010
P. Nearn (London, UK)
I haven't felt the same about the plants and trees around me since the day I picked up Plant Spirit Medicine at the suggestion of a friend. This book is beautifully written and full of fascinating stories and ideas. It weaves a subtle magic just by the reading of it. If you want to open your heart to wonder and the possibility that healing can arrive in forms you've never even dreamed of, then definitely buy this book. And you might as well order two copies straight off because it's the kind of book that you can't wait to share with your friends, but you won't want to let your copy go. Enjoy!
The best book on the subject of plant spirit medicine April 14, 2010
C. DeGetmon (Earth)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a deeply reflective survey on plant spirit medicine. It is pretty obvious the author has extensive experience on this subject traveling the world and working with some of the visionary keepers of this knowledge now being lost to our contemporary world. It is also pretty clear that one goal of the book is to document this knowledge for non-western peoples and preserve it for prosperity on behalf of the wisdom keepers of this ancient medicine. As the superstructure continues its material collapse, those left standing will need this type of wisdom to carry forward the human enterprise.
The discussions on the way indigenous healers approach this subject as opposed to the way Westerners or Eurocentric people approach it will invoke disorientation for those nursing off of western rationalism. The indigenous world view turns upside down modern rational thought by presenting a vision of the world any westerner would dare not go, let alone contemplate since it is so far outside his domesticated and routine life.
This book is by far the best book on a complicated subject but more importantly, it provided some tools for working with the spirit world that are powerful. You won't find this kind of authenticity in most narratives on the subject. If personal transformation and non-western thinking is high on your wisdom meter, this book delivers the goods in countless ways.
Cowen is a visionary of the highest order. Read this book again and again. It might transform your life.
Relationships are about you and the plants November 7, 2009
F. Carter (Akron, Ohio)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am highly impressed by Cowan's approach to this topic. Instead of giving you impersonal information about plants and animals, his approach is to encourage the reader to develop direct connections with the plants. This is not easily done for several reasons, but Cowan makes it more accessible to people.
I think the most important part of his work is how he helps the reader understand that having a relationship with a plant is more than picking it, eating it, and waiting for it to fix you.
If you need someone to tell you how you relate to plants or animals, look up someone encyclopedic like Ted Andrews. Cowan's approach is much older and more personal. He won't do the thinking for you, but becuase of that you will actually have the opportunity to develop a connection with plants instead of an object/user relationship.
Plant Spirit Medicine August 28, 2009
Alan J. Mooers
I read, and was deeply touched by the author's intelligent, knowledgeable and truthful writing. Elliot Cowan is one of those treasures you'd love to spend an afternoon with, or be a life-long friend. People should read this book.
Heather Preston
author "Tree Spirits: Tales and Encounters"
Marking the end of arrogance August 20, 2009
John Zay (Los Angeles, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
To think that the very source of our the bodies we have, the senses we perceive with and all the materials we use didn't design us with a means of communication with them is an arrogant presumption(plant life that is). Natives have known for many many years how to communicate with the co-creators of our world. In these times of crumbling paradigms it might be time for the people of this country to learn from the ancient traditions of the natives who inhabited it for so many years before. Eliot Cowan does an incredible of bridging that gap and sharing his experience of an ever changing communication method.
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