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Find healing and connection by engaging with wild plants
To our ancestors, the wild world around them was filled with meaning, guidance, and insight. They recognized the symbols hidden in Nature that represent invitations to connect with our wild kin, such as the Silver Branch of Irish legend. They understood that plants and fungi are living teachers who can become our allies in healing and magic. They knew that there is deep healing available when one lives in direct connection with the living world.
Braiding together insights from herbalism, ecology, neurobiology, psychology, Irish history, and magical tradition, Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue shows how we, too, can tap into the flow of communication from the wild world and our ancestral traditions to transform our lives, culture, and worlds. Introducing the seven principles of animist herbalism, he revitalizes the ancient Irish understanding of the "three cauldrons" of the body and shows how this framework can be applied to the practice of modern herbalism. He examines the importance of physical and spiritual nourishment, including the role of seasonal ritual in setting the rhythms of our lives. He shares ancient Irish stories, with precautions and protocols regarding the ethics of engaging the Otherworld and working with plant medicines, especially psychedelics.
O'Donogue introduces thirteen of his closest plant and fungi allies, discussing what it means to develop a relationship with a plant and how to work with their medicines for healing and magic. He also provides simple practices for rooting in nature, navigating the wheel of the year, and deepening your connections with wild plants, as well as trees, water, and the ancestors.
Revealing the depths of healing and magic available through wild plants, O'Donoghue helps us to reconnect body and spirit with the living world around us.
Contents
Foreword to the First Edition
The Forest Reminds Us Who We Are
By Dr. Mitchell Bebel Stargrove
Foreword to the New Edition
The Silver Branch and the Otherworld
By Cornelia Benavidez
Preface
The Life of This Book
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Beyond the Walls of Perception
1
Living Medicine, Living Magic
2
The Otherworld Well
3
The Three Cauldrons
4
Mad, Dead, or a Poet
5
The Silver Branch
6
Rooting in the Living World
7
The Wheel of the Year
Plant and Fungal Allies
Profiles of Wild Kin
Epilogue
Awakening
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
