Main description:

Indigenous healers and shamans have known since antiquity that plants possess a spirit essence that can communicate through light, sound, and vibration. Now scientific studies are verifying this understanding. Plant Spirit Healingreveals the power of plant spirits to join with human intelligence to bring about profound healing. These spirits take us beyond mere symptomatic treatment to aligning us with the vast web of nature. Plants are more than their chemical constituents. They are intelligent beings that have the capacity to raise consciousness to a level where true healing can take place. In this book, herbalist Pam Montgomery offers an understanding of the origins of disease and the therapeutic use of plant spirits to bring balance and healing. She offers a process engaging heart, soul, and spirit that she calls the triple spiral path. In our modern existence, we are increasingly challenged with broken hearts, souls in exile, and malnourished spirits. By working through the heart, we connect with the soul and gain access to spirit. She explains that the evolution of plants has always preceded their animal counterparts and that plant spirits offer a guide to our spiritual evolution--a stage of growth imperative not only for the healing of humans but also the healing of the earth.

Contents:

Foreword: Reclaiming the Invisible
by Stephen Harrod Buhner

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One
The Theoretical Basis for Plant Spirit Healing

1 Spiritual Ecology

2 The Essential Nature of Plants

3 The Triple Spiral Path

4 The Heart of the Matter

5 The Connecting Link--Our Soul

6 Spirit Healing

Part Two
The Practical Application of Plant Spirit Healing

7 The Dreamtime of Plants

8 Building Relationships with Plants

9 Healing Oneself, Others, and the Planet with Plant Spirits

10 Building Personal Power

11 Foundational Healing Modalities

12 Origins of Dis-ease and the Therapeutic Use of Plant Spirits

Part Three
The Healing Gifts of Plants

13 Plant Allies

Epilogue

Bibliography

About the Author

Index