Plant Spirit Wisdom: Celtic Healing and the Power of Nature

an excellent book, that captures an older spirit. If you are interested in plant wisdom, highly recommended

Excellent book on the spirit of plants. It has many recipes and ways of using plants for healing or magic. Handy reference book too.

Great book

A+

This is a useful book, written from a spiritual perspective I like. It was worth it to me to get this. I like reviews that mention similar books, so I will do that. Wisdom of the Earth, by Barry Kapp, goes into similar ideas. Amazon doesn't have it in stock, though. This book is a start on a lifelong path, and by way, Americans even in the 20th century let the plants talk to them.  There Are No Incurable Diseases: Dr. Schulze's 30-Day Cleansing & Detoxification Program , School of Natural HealingHerbal Home Health Care , Herbal Healing for Women , Complete Medicinal Herbal (Natural care)  can round this out, on the herbal side. For the Shamanic side,  The Physics of Miracles: Tapping in to the Field of Consciousness Potential   The Future Is Yours: Do Something About It!  There is a Sufi story about moths, and the only moth that really understands the candle is the one who gives himself totally to the light, and the light gives itself to him. This applies to shamanic work. Shamanic techniques work from the larger self, especially in service to others. Shamanism means working with the subconscious, and at times superconscious minds. It cannot be apprehended by the conscious mind, the ego. Without service, many things just don't work, or work only slightly.  Whispers of the Ancients: Native Tales for Teaching and Healing in Our Time  gives you some idea of how very different native storytelling is, and stories shape the Universe. Indigenous life, for which these techniques go hand in glove, can be approximated from  Journey to the Ancestral Self: The Native Lifeway Guide to Living in Harmony With Earth Mother, Book 1 (Bk.1)  These are very good basic books, to getting out of the box of Western culture, into the much more fascinating 7 worlds of the spiritual traveller. Wong Kiew Kit's books on Chi Kung show how ideas like this survive in Chinese culture, and Chinese Herbal medicine has aspects very similar to these. Joseph Murphy  The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Revised)  can help in understanding this. Healing For The Millions, by King, would also help.

I read this book a few years ago and decided to dive in again this week as I noticed it on my bookshelf and couldn't remember finishing it. I couldn't get more than two chapters deep this time. The hodgepodge of 'shamanism', Christianity, neopagan druidry, animist one moment and monotheist the next, forgery of the Iolo morganwg variety, rumi quotes, oddly misrepresented vitalist concepts, and the like make it appear that the author's version of celtic-inspired plant medicine doesn't have enough of its own lore and history to craft a working model of healing, so it has to be stolen from others. The author patches their own philosophical holes by co-opting loosely related ideas from cultures already heavily appropriated and in so doing makes celtic spirituality appear shallow and new age. A tiny bit of research yields more than enough celtic depth to build a working path without the need to lift from others. Meanwhile he edges in heavy Christian 'god' concepts hidden in a cloak of new age ministry while ignoring the ways that Christian representatives worked to destroy the very plant medicine and animist ways he's trying to support by invoking that same God through new age lenses. It's baffling.I invite the interested reader to explore the work of Lora O'Brien who is a native Irish teacher and has been helping to clear up this toxic notion of celtic shamanism and the complex ways people of celtic descent misrepresent their own ancestors, usually by appropriation of others.If we do good research and make powerful otherworldly connections we will find the words and ways that are actually celtic and can then celebrate our ancestral ways while also protecting and honoring the resonant ways of all others.

I was actually looking for another book by this author and came across this..I have yet to go through it in full but as I've bought his work before I'm confident I won't be disappointed...so much so I bought two copies, one as a gift for a friend.

Being very interested in shamanism and the use of plants in nature for healing, journeying etc, this was a great start. I have read other books which have expanded but you have to start somewhere and this is a book I will keep rather than pass on.

A nice smooth read, very engrossing and well-written. Offers information, as the cover states, on shamanism and sin-eating but also has quite a lot of info about plant spirits and Celtic approach to herbalism.

OK