Last night, I dreamt of Agua Fria. Last night, I dreamt of a friend, a friend from Pindi Pueblo I dreamt of a wild turkey on her nest full of eggs. She had covered herself with dry weeds to disguise herself At her back was a small struggling bosque along the river banks. In front, […]
Category Archives: Plant Wisdom
From the World Tree to one-celled algae, we all owe our lives to the Green
Managing manure is a huge part of any horse facility. I do live in the traditional historic village of Agua Fria which specifically allows small-scale agricultural activities. My immediate neighbors still have chickens, goats and pot-bellied pigs even if the number of horses in Agua Fria has dropped by a factor of ten, from 150 […]
When I had my DNA sequenced, I decided to go with Helix. Helix works with the National Geographic and the Mayo Clinic, so they do a very complete job of sequencing. And they asked me if I wanted to participate in their DNA studies, insted of assuming my genetic info was theirs to mine and […]
In my lifetime, those who have popularized shamanic techniques have attempted to integrate them into their existing Western worldview. For example, Carlos Castaneda, Felicitas Goodman and Michael Harner were all anthropologists with an implicit bias towards framing their experiences in terms of literate Western Civilization. My challenge is to integrate the foundations of that intellectual […]
Since I am promoting an herbal webinar, I decided I should explain a bit about my inclusion. 99.3 percent of the biomass on this lovely planet is plant life. We humans are a small fraction of the remaining .7 percent of biomass that is animal life. Indigenous peoples have many stories recognizing both the intelligence […]
I am currently on an early to bed ( because I am too miserable to function) and early to rise (because I am too miserable to stay in bed) schedule. All because apparently my liver/pancrease/diaphragm have decided that they will clear all the obstructions, toxins and adhesions of my entire lifetime right now. I am […]
Although my body has responded better to the sledgehammer approach of western medicine that the subtleties of alternative medicine, I was willing to be an experimental subject for Matthew Woods’ Friday evening pulse and face diagnoses class at TIVI, the Inner Vision Institute that recently started up in La Mesilla, just north of Santa Fe. […]
Matthew Wood asked me to participate in his April first online Materia Medica class (click here). The topic was the Trickster. Matt had a great repertoire of herbal remedies that can help shift the various ways our wondrous human mind can trick us into states that are really not so wonderful. Of course the question […]
As usual, I decided that if I am to heal my liver, I need to know what it is and how it works especially as Western medical tests don’ t detect liver problems until only about 10% of the organ is still functional so by the time doctors notice something is wrong, your liver is […]
I have found myself quite literally swelling out of my clothes since 12/21/2012. Feeling as bad as I have ever felt over the last few months seems a strange reaction to the grand shift of consciousness. My pet theory is that saints and buddhas are in fine shape, it is it is the bottom one […]
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