Description
Stephen Harrod Buhner is the senior researcher for the Foundation for Gaian Studies. Described as both an Earth Poet and a Bardic Naturalist, he is the award-winning author of 19 books, including The Lost Language of Plants, The Secret Teachings of Plants, and Sacred Plant Medicine. He has taught for more than 30 years throughout North America and Europe. He lives in Silver City, New Mexico. Acknowledgments A Note to the Reader ~ First Movement ~ Touching the Foundations of the World Prelude The Soft Flutter of Butterflies 1 Reclaiming the Invisible 2 The Doors of Perception 3 And the Doorkeeper Obeys When Spoken To 4 Everything Is Intelligent 5 We Want Braaaaains 6 Gaia and the Pattern That Connects 7 Molecular Veriditas 8 The Function of Psychotropics in the Ecosystem 9 Inextricable Intertangling ~ Second Movement ~ Gaias Mind and the Dreaming of Earth 10 A Certain Adjustment of Consciousness 11 The Sea of Meaning 12 Following Golden Threads 13 The Naturalists Approach The Beginnings of Deep Earth Perception 14 The Imaginal World 15 The Dreaming of Earth 16 Reemergence into Classical Newtonian Space ~ Bridge ~ Bifurcation 17 The Ecological Function of the Human Species 18 The Road Not Taken 19 Becoming Barbarian ~ Coda ~ A Different Kind of Thinking Epilogue To See the Shimmer of Infinity in the Face of the Other Diminuendo Al Niente The Movement of Great Things Appendix 1 Sensory Overload and Self-Caretaking Appendix 2 On the Healing of Schizophrenia Notes Bibliography Index
