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Visionary Plant Consciousness
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Editor(s) :
J.P. Harpignies
Pages :
210
Pub Date :
2007
Edition(s) at Erowid :
2007(pb,uncor. proof,fine), 2007(pb,1st ed.,fine)
Publisher :
Park Street Press
ISBN :
1594771472
BACK COVER #
Visionary plants have long served indigenous peoples and their shamans as enhancers of perception, thinking, and healing. These plants can also be important guides to the reality of the natural world and how we can live harmoniously in it.

In Visionary Plant Consciousness, editor J.P. Harpignies has gathered presentations from the Bioneers annual conference of environmental and social visionaries that explore how plant consciousness affects the human condition. Twenty-three leading ethnobotanists, anthropologists, medical researchers, and cultural and religious figures such as Terence McKenna, Andrew weil, Wade Davis, Michael Pollan, Alex Grey, Jeremy Narby, Katsi Cook, John Mohawk, and Kat Harrison, among others, present their understandings of the nature of psychoactive plants and their significant connection to humans. What they reveal is that these plants may help us access the profound intelligence in nature--the "mind of nature" that we must learn to understand in order to survive our ecologically destructive way of life.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) / EDITOR(S) #
J.P. Harpignies is associate producer of the national Bioneers conference (www.bioneers.org) and coproducer and founder of the Eco-Metropolis conference (www.ecometropolis.org) in New York City. He is the author of Political Ecosystems and Double Helix Hubris and the associate editor of Ecological Medicine and Nature's Operating Instructions.