Wisdom of the Plant Devas: Herbal Medicine for a New Earth

Wisdom of the Plant Devas: Herbal Medicine for a New Earth, by Thea Summer Deer. Each plant has a story to share with us, a healing story to guide us in trying times, a spirit medicine for the New Earth that is presently unfolding. Herbs are some of the most powerful allies we have for these transitional times--we just need to learn how to listen as they share their knowledge with us.

In Wisdom of the Plant Devas, Thea Summer Deer reveals a new dimension of herbal medicine, one where the plant’s spirit is consulted for guidance and healing beyond the physical. Examining the botany, modern and traditional uses, history, and folklore of 13 special herbs, such as rosemary, uva ursi, and datura, she shares divinations and messages from their devas, or plant spirits, explaining how these stories carry the herbs into our lives, letting them work their magic on us. Exploring herbal medicine from an energetic perspective, she reveals that by communing with the deva of a plant, we can call on the plant’s physical, psychological, and spiritual medicine and guidance--without ingesting it or even being in its presence.

Detailing the sacred space of a Medicine Wheel Garden, whether in a backyard or our imaginations, she connects us with the devas and empowers us to seek our own answers with their much-needed spiritual guidance and divinatory advice. Creating a bridge between botanical medicine and plant spirit medicine, she shows how by coming into community with the devas and co-creating with the world of nature, we can gain tremendous insights to help heal our hearts, our minds, and our spirits and consciously evolve as together we birth the New Earth.

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Thea Summer Deer is a clinical herbalist, singer-songwriter, midwife, and childbirth educator. Raised with the Seminole Indians in South Florida until the age of eight, she lives surrounded by Cherokee ancestral land in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina.

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Sacred Land: Intuitive Gardening for Personal, Political and Environmental Change

Sacred Land: Intuitive Gardening for Personal, Political and Environmental Change, by Clea Danaan. Clea Danaan breaks new ground with Sacred Land-a fresh approach to sacred gardening that goes beyond the backyard. Danaan shows how the garden can germinate environmental awareness and political change while feeding the spirit. You'll learn how to create compost, save seeds, connect with garden goddesses, perform rituals and magic, and incorporate planetary energy in the garden. Each of the four sections-spanning earth, air, fire, and water-suggest ways of spreading this message of ecology and sustainability to the community. There are also inspiring stories of activists, farmers, artists, healers and other women who are making a difference in the world. Clea Danaan (Colorado) has been gardening organically for over fifteen years. Her articles on gardening and environmental activism have appeared in Sage Woman and Organic Family. She lives near Denver with her husband and daughter.

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Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen

Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, by Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry. From making healthy food choices and preparing mouth-watering meals, to unmasking corporate flimflam and supporting sustainable farming, here is the complete guide for the young, the hip, the socially tuned-in - and for all who want to eat real food. In the past few decades, organic food has moved out of the patchouli-scented aisles of food co-ops and into over three-quarters of conventional grocery stores. Hand-in-glove, more and more of us are becoming aware of the social, environmental, and health benefits of organic eating, independent farming, and promoting "fair food."

Combining a straight-to-the-point exposé about the fake food filling our supermarkets and the compelling reasons for choosing organic, local, "fair" food, Grub helps all of us become a part of one of the most hopeful movements of the new century: a revolution in food and farming that is best for our bodies and the earth. With spirited and practical how-to's for creating an affordable, easy-to-use organic kitchen and dozens of delectable recipes, Grub also offers the millions of people who buy organics fresh ideas and easy ways to cook with them. From the Valentine's Day Decadence Dinner to the Straight-Edge Punk Brunch Buffet, Grub includes over a dozen menus paired with soundtracks to cook (and party) by and artwork and poetry evoking the spirit of Grub. If organic food has a user's guide, this is it.

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Biodynamic Agriculture

Biodynamic Agriculture, by Willy Schilthuis. Based on the work of Rudolf Steiner, Biodynamics is an internationally recognized approach to organic agriculture which respects and works with the spiritual dimension of the Earth. Where conventional agricultural methods threaten the environment, biodynamic farms and gardens are designed for sound ecological balance. This concise, fully illustrated book presents evidence that biodynamic crops have deeper roots and stronger disease resistance and keep better than conventionally produced crops. Schilthuis was president of the Dutch Biodynamic Association for 25 years. Revised edition.

The World Is In My Garden: A Journey of Consciousness

The World Is In My Garden: A Journey of Consciousness, by Chris & Zane Maser. With passion, warmth, and understanding, the Masers connect the simple personal action of tending the home garden to larger issues. They guide us through four garden gates—Ecological Consciousness, Social Consciousness, Personal Consciousness, and Spiritual Consciousness—with simple exercises and profound insights that teach a more balanced way of life. Chris Maser is a veteran research scientist in natural history and ecology. Zane Maser is involved with the spiritual healing work of the Church of the White Eagle Lodge.