CONNECTING WITH ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE

Coming Back to Presence with the Living Earth

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Ecological Intelligence
Thinking and working with plants and ecological intelligence to transform our understanding of human-nonhuman relationship as we remember our essential bond with the Living Earth.

In addition to the above you will find a bit of information about wildcrafting, medicine making, and working with medicinal plants.

The Plant Teachers, Wildcrafting Scott Kloos The Plant Teachers, Wildcrafting Scott Kloos

Cascara Sagrada: Sacred Bark of Letting Go

I am sitting in a room with a male forest being. He is brown with strips of bark hanging from his clothes. He looks at me with a glimmer in his eye, "You know Cascara is good for stubborn blockages."

"Yes, I know"

"No, I mean stubborn blockages." As he emphasizes "blockages" I understand that he means mental, spiritual, and emotional blockages.

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The Plant Teachers Scott Kloos The Plant Teachers Scott Kloos

"Receive Your Blessing, Daughter of Heaven"

A familiar cough that comes when my heart unable to receive arising as I put first drops in my mouth; the taste, a wave of bitterness with white-capped apple skin sweetness. The medicine washes down through my chest smoothly pushing cough aside, dissipating and erasing its energy. Memories of a family, friends of my family, with two boys younger than me who tortured animals and a father who had to leave because he was abusive.

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