Bøger af Jesse Wolf Hardin

Wonderments is a lushly illustrated book that enchants and empowers as it equips, featuring inspiration, assessment tools and exciting insights for a more effective life practice or purpose... and for a vitally awakened and deeply satisfying life! As the subtitle explains, it was written for all you visionaries sensualists, culture-shifters and healers of every kind."The enchanted healer is one who has gone to that other world, been changed... and committed himself or herself to the all life... to heal all things, to bring them into right relationship with all others. I hope the reader enjoys this journey into the enchantment of the healer as much as I have."-Matthew Wood, HerbalistWonderments is for anyone seeking a vital re-enchantment, a more full experience of life, and a greater effectiveness in fulfilling one's dream, one's purpose, one's calling. Such enchantment is essential to our efficacy, enjoyments and satisfaction - not in the sense of being "bewitched" or "beguiled," but enraptured, enlivened and aroused, the opening of our sensate beings, conscious minds and caring hearts to those intense potentials existing at the edges of our tested knowledge and the far frontiers of our respective fields and interests. Enchantment is a natural state induced by the encounters with the mysterium occurring in the wilder parts of the mind, at the far frontiers of what is conventionally imagined, and there at the sun-dappled edge of the unmapped forest. Much of this material appeared first in the the book The Enchanted Healer, and then was reworked and expanded with several new chapters and a number of additional illustrations. The intention is for it to reach beyond the plant healer community to the larger audience for information and inspiration about subjects like awakeness and expanding our awareness, enhancing the five physical senses, ecstatic sexuality, places of power and the healing quest, the lore and ethos of Gaia the living Earth, creating your own inner sanctum and cabinets of curiosity, identifying your plant and animal allies, the roles of healers and seers, and so much more!From the Introduction: "Our enchantment and wonder, roles and purposes, efficacy and satisfaction require that we be both Seekers & Practitioners. We need to daily practice skills and tasks, the honing of the senses, the exercising of curiosity and critical thinking, the deliberate plumbing of meaning and patterns, the application of ideas and the testing of knowledge. Developing, improving, and applying. Parents practicing parenting and poets practicing poetry, healers practicing the ways of healing, teachers of teaching, artisans practicing the ways and means of creating, lovers practicing love. At the same time, we must never cease being Seekers - explorers, questers, students - seeking new experiences, fresh ideas, indicative discoveries, greater understanding, and more and more powerful ways of applying our practices to actualize our intentions and goals, our gifting and service, effectiveness and optimization, realization and fulfillment. While it certainly feels good, enchantment is not only a search, enjoyment and reward, but a peak condition enabling, influencing, and enchanting our thoughts and actions. As explorers of the far depths and full breadth of reality, we and our personalized missions benefit from the increased awakeness and awareness, embodiment and presence, self-knowledge and spiritual/magical sense of place and purpose that wonder helps make possible. Wonderments is encouragement to do what many may call impossible: fully inhabiting and passionately co-creating the diverse manifestations of a fairytale-quality life."

The Herbalist: Your Healer's Journey offers succinct practical tips and insights for anyone either already practicing or just starting out in herbalism and other natural healing modalities. It deals with everything from redefining health and healing the various skills and steps we need to take, to serving marginalized communities and dealing with money matters, essential self-care, and how to determine your optimal personal specialty, role and niche in this amazing field. Unlike his previous books such as The Plant Healer's Path and The Practice of Herbalism, the 29 chapters of The Herbalist were transcribed directly from his short Plant Healers Path video recordings posted on the HerbRally youtube channel. "Get ready to be inspired, uplifted, and empowered to be the very best healer you can be, and to be a misfit health provider without reservation! I am excited for the herbal community and the world at large to benefit from the teachings of The Plant Healer's Path for generations to come."--Mason Hutchison (The HerbRally Schoolhouse)The result is this volume's unbridled conversational tone, quickly getting to the promised points with what you might agree are scant filters. This is a faster tempo, no-brakes version of Wolf Hardin's characteristic teachings, described by associates as"wildling counsel," "plant hearted sermons," and "green cheerleading." It is as much as anything a compendium of hopeful inspiration and relentless encouragements -- the "you and your healing work matters," the "magic is alive," "it's ok to be different," "you can do it" and "ain't it wondrous" book!"Wonder-filled, indeed, is the shared Plant Healer mission of helping this planet, our diverse cultures, these lands and people, helping to heal from disease and disharmony and debility, contributing to wholeness in times of separation, polarization, and isolation. Wonderful is the incredible intensity of your empathy and caring, your determination to assist, and the poetic grace and utter delight you bring to your personalized version of our great and needed work. And wonderful, too, the plants that you work with, learn from, and share the blessings of. In every herbal root and leaf -- as in every one of you -- I see miracles of mending, evocations of evolving beauty and meaning and purpose." --Jesse Wolf Hardin

Materia Medica IV: Botany For Herbalists is indeed the fourth in our series of books exploring the powerful and diverse herbs that we so count on for this most vital work of healing naturally. Eight of our savvy Plant Healer Quarterly writers bring to these pages close to a full century's worth of personal experience and study, this time out focusing on providing the skills for accurate plant identification, on taxonomy features, families, communities, and the kinds of habitats where they can be found and gathered. Join us in learning to parse the forms and structures that distinguish one species from another, from leaf to flower. Parse the familial differences between Rutaceae, Solinaceae and Asteracea, the specific signatures and actions that determine their groupings. Enjoy a virtual plant walk through some middle elevation meadows and a recovering burn scar, and take additional deep dives into the glory and uses of proliferate, health-bringing "weeds," Guido's celebration of "liminal" species, the role that rivers can play, and our own individual connection to the natural world and natural healing processes through our work with herbs.We dedicate this volume to Plant Healer Quarterly's original botany columnist, the esteemed 7-Song -- and to our publication's current and future botanist scribe Shana Grover. Both have helped bring to life for everyone the herbs and actions without which there could be no effective herbal healings, reawakening in us a great curiosity and childlike sense of wonder that can propel as well inform and empower our very personal practice. Part I: The Botany of HerbsThe Benefits & Joys of Botany Shana Lipner GroverBotany For Herbalists 7 SongBotanical Eyes & The 4 Whorls of The Flower Shana Lipner GroverFlowers: A Basic Introduction 7 SongLeaves Illuminated - Part I 7 SongLeaves Illuminated - Part II 7 SongLeaves: What They Can Tell Us Shana Lipner GroverWinter Plant Identification 7SongPart II: More Medicinal Plant FamiliesThe Botany of Monocots & Eudicots Shana Lipner GroverThe Botany of The Rutaceae Family Shana Lipner Grover The Botany of Solinaceae Shana Lipner GroverThe Botany of The Asteracea Shana Lipner GroverThe Botany of The Piper Genus Shana Lipner GroverLamiaceae Family: Heddy JohannesenAromatic Nervines & Carminatives of The Mint FamilyMedicinal Shrubs Dara Saville Part III: Deep Connections & Plant CommunitiesRelationships With Nature: Shana Lipner GroverConnecting Deeper Through HerbsLiminal plants Guido MaséHonoring the Humble Weeds: Holly DunbarA Journey Back to the PlantsInvasive Medicinals Shana Lipner GroverMullein & Solomon's Seal: Alignment & Flow Seán Pádraig O'DonoghuePlant Walk Through The Middle Elevations Meadows Shana Lipner GroverEarly Spring Medicines of The Black Hills Sean CrokePlant Walk Through a Recovering Burn Shana Lipner GroverLate Winter Plants: We Owe It All To The Rivers Sean Croke

Featuring 28 intimate, in-depth conversations - with 19 exciting new voices at the leading edge of evolving herbalism, plus an additional 9 extended, often updated interviews with the most influential of herbal icons: Kenneth Proefrock - Dara Saville - Guido Masé - Larken Bunce - Sean Donahue - Marija Helt Jesse Wolf Hardin - Kiva Rose Hardin - Shawn Donnille - Kat MacKinnon - Amber Magnolia Hill - Mélanie Pulla - Janet Kent & Jen Stovall - Juanita Nelson - Tiffany Freeman - Missy Rohs - Phyllis Hogan - Angie True - Ginger Webb - Laura Ash - Rosemary Gladstar - David Hoffman - Matthew Wood - Phyllis Light - Phyllis Hogan - Paul Bergner - Juliet Blankespoor - Jim McDonald - Julie Caldwell Read the stories of plant healers, herbal clinicians, plant geeks, boundary shifting activists, gardeners, botanists, medicine makers, folklorists, mystics, kitchen witches, and activists... and be inspired on your own personal path of healing and practice. Even if you have been a clinician for decades, you can draw from these pages new insights, ideas and information that may benefit your work. And even if you have limited herbal experience - or have no interest in growing, gathering, studying or administering medicinal plants yourself - you may still find that this book helps to awaken, deepen or propel your own personal life's purpose. "What a gift not only to me but the world. Really, Jesse Wolf, you've done it once again created something so masterful and powerful for the rest of us to savor and enjoy and treasure. This book is a true jewel to be treasured for, who knows, perhaps generations? Though I have read many interviews with various people over time, these were so thoughtfully and thoroughly done. I was amazed at the questions you posed to each of us, allowing us to ramble, but not ramble too much, inviting us to self reflect and to dig deep. I also appreciate the eclectic nature of the interviews, reading those of old favorites and also being introduced to people I don't know. I am absolutely impressed by each person's depth of insight, connection to the plants, and their deep commitment to being of service not only to the green nations but to humanity. It is just awesome, inspiring, and uplifting!" -Rosemary Gladstar Some of the topic covered herein: -Herbalist's personal lives & livelihoods, secrets, tools & tips -Previously unshared stories about these herbalists' childhoods, education, experiences, perspectives, loves, peeves, and hopes... candid, vulnerable & unscripted! -Underutilized herbs, and little known uses for commonly known plants -Constitutional models, energetics, diagnostic methods, case study examples, treatment protocols -Herbal healing traditions -What herbal students need to know, and how to effectively teach -Talking with plants, shamanic herbs, entheogens, & the wounded healer -How to start and run a successful herbal business or practice -Critical thinking, assessments, and clinician/client skills -The cultivation of herbs, foraging & wildcrafting, plant conservation, invasives, & sense of place -Approaches to registration, certification, regulation and licensing -Herbal justice and activism, neurodiversity and transgender herbalism -Inspiring and encouraging personal advice to herbalists and others -Diverse visions of herbalism and its future, and how to best get there