[Pil-pc-oceania] book - 'The Secret Teachings of Plants, The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature'

[Linda Shewan]

I have just finished reading  'The Secret Teachings of Plants, The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature' by Stephen Harrod Buhner.
I would recommend it to everyone - it could change your life. He verifies that the heart is in fact the first brain and must come before the linear mind in information processing.  And at the very least it affirms what so many of us already know deep inside - that all are connected, that life is in everything, even a rock and that with perseverance, respect and love nature will communicate with you - plants will speak directly to you.
The other books that must be read are the Ringing Cedar Series by Vladimir Megre. Lots of out there stuff but it all correlates with Buhner's work, such as her emphatic demands that you must try and understand information through your feelings , that your analytical mind can't understand on its own     and much more - something on everything with a roadmap to how humanity needs to move forward. Written in very simplistic language but imbued with very deep meanings...  and very conducive to the permaculture/ecovillage/relocalisation/community movements.
In the first book of the series 'Anastasia' - she talks about how to plant a seed so that it knows and understands you and your specific needs so it can grow in the right way to heal you of your illnesses etc. I will be testing this later in the year when I can compare direct planted seeds done Anastasia's way with the usual direct planted seeds.
Does  this put me in the 'wah wah' community of permies? I hope not, I think we need to connect to the cosmos as well as the earth...
Linda

From: Martin Naylor [mailto:martinwnaylor at yahoo.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, 6 September 2007 12:26 PM
To: pil-pc-oceania at lists.permacultureinternational.org
Subject: [Pil-pc-oceania] book

Just got The Lost Language Of Plants from the libary by Stephen Harrod Buhnner
John Seed gets a mention in Resource section
anyone else read it
martin

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