In this episode, share an update with our moving situation and offer some of the teaching experiences I have been up to.
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I also explore four ancestral ways of knowing plants: trial and error, storytelling and traditional use, dreams, and animism. Together, these offer a rich picture of herbal knowledge shaped by observation, community experience, imagination, and relationship.
I reflect on how scientific inquiry and more intuitive ways of knowing can live alongside one another, making room for both what we can measure and what we experience through connection.
In this episode, I share:
• How plants' ancient evolutionary history invites us to reconsider their intelligence and adaptability.
• How generations of observation helped communities recognize herbal uses and energetic qualities such as hot, cold, damp, and dry.
• Why stories and songs help us remember plant knowledge, and why honoring the cultural lineages carrying those teachings matters.
• My own dream encounter with violet and reflections on dreaming as a space for exploring our relationships with plants.
• How an animistic worldview invites us to experience the world as alive, interconnected, and relational.
• A simple bedtime intention and journaling practice for welcoming and remembering plant dreams.
If you'd like to explore the dream practice, keep a journal and pen beside your bed. Before sleep, set a sincere intention to meet a plant in your dreams and ask to learn something. Upon waking, write down whatever you remember, even if it is only an image, feeling, or fragment.
This is an invitation to bring curiosity and attention to the living world around you, and to notice what unfolds when you begin showing up!
Mentioned in this episode:
Fantastic Fungi, featuring mycologist Paul Stamets - https://fantasticfungi.com/pages/the-film
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