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, Wildcrafting Scott Kloos The Plant Teachers, Wildcrafting Scott Kloos

Devil’s Club’s Adaptogenic Effects for Trauma

I walk through the woods searching for a good place to harvest Devil’s Club, Oplopanax horridum. I investigate the root connections looking for a spot where the stems have grown tall and fallen over making new root junctions. If you can find a mature root in between two well-rooted nodes, you can take the central piece while doing minimal harm to the above-ground portions of the plant. I make prayers and offerings and ask for permission to harvest. As I am cleaning and clipping the roots I’ve removed from the stand, I have a sense that something is not right.

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