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Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness
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This
is a profound work…. Written with a clarity and depth of
understanding that only someone deeply attuned to their subject
could master. Pam Montgomery, Herbalist and Plant Spirit practitioner,
weaves together indigenous wisdom, modern research, science and
quantum physics into a vibrant testament of the sacred and powerful
nature inherent in plant medicine. One of the finest books written
on the subject, Plant Spirit Healing challenges
the limited perceptions we have of modern herbal and medical practices.
But it does far more than that; it teaches one how to open the
channels of the sacred that is so important in plant medicine,
but that is too often forgotten in our modern healing rituals/practices.
The powerful message transmitted through every page of this amazing
book is bound to change our perception of herbal healing ~ and
of medicine in general. Written with a fiery heart and tons of
experience, Pam calls forth the soul of herbal medicine and rekindles
the spirit inherent in the practice of herbal medicine.This book
is a great book destined to become a classic. Rosemary
Gladstar, Herbalist and Founder of United Plant Savers
Pam Montgomery
has built a bridge between the spiritual needs of people and the
spiritual powers of plants. She shows us how to work with plants
to heal our bodies and nourish our souls.As a spiritual ambassador
for the plant kingdom she urges us to view and sense plants in
a profoundly deep way that honors their much overlooked spiritual
gifts and shows us how to tap into this power for the healing
of ourselves and the planet. Plant Spirit Healing
opens a whole new arena for plant lovers and herbalists. At this
time in our evolution, plant spirits can and will be partners
in a new paradigm of mutual understanding that might just save
us all.
Dr.Rosita
Arvigo
author of Sastun and Spiritual Bathing
“A
blessing of a book. Pam’s writing shines with what Hildegard
of Bingen called VIRIDITAS – the healing power of the Green.
It is filled with the wisdom of a REAL herbalist. You need this
book!” David
Hoffmann BSc, FNIMH, author of Medical Herbalism, Herbal Prescriptions
after 50 and The Holistic Herbal
"If
you've ever found yourself having a conversation with a plant,
feeling emotional towards a mountain or hearing whispers on the
wind this book is for you. We are urged to listen very carefully
to the primal conversation of plants and join in, widening our
community to really include them. Plant Spirit Healing offers
practical ice breakers to establish relationships with our green
friends, not just those currently used in herbal medicine traditions,
but all plants. Montgomery suggests these willing healing partners
have extraordinary abilities most of us have yet to comprehend."
John Seed, rainforest and climate change activist, co-author
of Thinking Like a Mountain, www.rainforestinfo.org.au,
www.climate.net.au
"Pam
Montgomery lives the way of life she writes about in Plant Spirit
Healing. In this book, Pam's extensive knowledge of plants is
conveyed in the context of a wider spiritual path of healing and
transformation. It honors and utilizes her direct intuitive experience
as well as her rigorous studies as a highly respected herbalist
and teacher. This book is a must for every student of the plant
world." Nicki Scully author of Alchemical Healing and
Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt
"Plant
Spirit Healing is a book about communicating with the spirits
of plants, and enlisting plant spirits to heal. These are subjects
of increasing importance and relevance in today’s world,
where ancient shamanism and modern spirituality are expanding
our worldview. However, author Pam Montgomery goes beyond these
remarkable themes, presenting a portrait or journal of what it
is like to live immersed in a Natural World where plants, stones,
and locations talk, signal, sing, educate, and heal. Plant Spirit
Healing is an antidote to the modern world, which has been stripped
of meaning, spirit, and relationship. Words like love, joy, spirit,
and life can be abstractions, but here they are real." Matthew
Wood, M.Sc. (Herbal Medicine) Registered Herbalist (AHG) author
of Herbal Wisdom and The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism
"Every soul searching for truth will drink in the words on
these pages like a healing potion, whether or not there is experience
using herbs. For those who love Latin names and chemistry, this
doorway opens us to the power of plants that goes beyond the physical."
Amanda McQuade Crawford Dip. Phyto., MNIMH, RH (AHG), MNZAMH
Consultant Medical Herbalist author of Herbal Remedies for Women
"Pam’s
new book, PLANT SPIRIT HEALING, gets to the root of this profound
way to wholeness – from modern physics to native tradition
– then takes us through a growing process of learning and
deepening our trust in connections with the loving power of the
green world, and ultimately helps us create a flowering of this
wonderful way of healing in our own lives and with our clients.
In my mind, it is already a classic." Brooke Medicine
Eagle, author of Buffalo Woman Comes Singing and The Last Ghost
Dance.
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I
first saw a mirrored image while canoeing in the Adirondacks on
a very still lake. The trees and plants on the shore reflected
into the water causing a mirrored image. Along the shoreline faces
and beings emerged much like a totem pole. I was amazed at how
alive everything felt with so many beautiful beings sharing the
lake and shore. I didn’t see this again until I saw Linda’s
photos which visually made the plants come alive in a new way.
The
cover photo by Linda E. Law
is of Lady’s Mantle. I sat with this image for the longest
time wondering about the alien being that is so prominent. This
being has a masculine quality to it and I was surprised to not
see a more feminine being. Then in a flash I saw it wasn’t
an alien after all but, instead, a wise old alchemist. I’ve
started to call him Arturo and, of course, Alchemilla (Lady’s
Mantle’s latin name) would reveal such a being. You will
find that each plant reveals different beings, some are sweet
and others are almost disturbing, just like life. These most amazing
photos give you a rare opportunity to delve into the essence of
the plant. - Pam Montgomery
About
photo artist Linda E. Law
I am a digital and holographic artist whose work focuses on connecting
with Nature. Photography has always been a tool for me to open
my awareness and step into a wider vision of the world around
me, a way of focusing my inner self. My camera is the vehicle
I use to open my senses and go below the surface into the deeper
realms, to those places where we are no longer disconnected.
Working
creatively with photographic film for over 25 years, the shift
from conventional film to a digital camera was a liberating experience
for me. Opening my vision it freed me to explore a new way of
working, a balance between the moment of connection and the extended
moment of revelation. This second step in my work, the extended
moment, is the process of revealing the true nature of the image
in the computer, of painting with light. I stay connected to the
place of magic experienced while taking a picture out in the woods,
under a cloud-filled sky at the transition from night to day,
or in the place of wonder as light dances on the surface of a
pool filled with golden light. The extended moment has become
the place where I open myself and the image to new possibilities
and where mythical creatures present themselves for revelation.
This technique
has evolved for me through several stages. In some of these images
I have taken the original and mirrored it and then proceeded to
"reveal" what is already there. The computer allows
me infinite control over this stage (akin to the photographic
technique of burning and dodging). New digital cameras, at higher
resolution, allow me to see into Nature with much finer detail.
A wondrous array of beings are revealed, layer upon layer, worlds
within worlds; the fractal realm that, science tells us, exists.
Working with these images I move into the arena of mythic creatures
- archetypal images that resonate with a power beyond our everyday
existence. These beings speak of a timeless realm, a place of
oneness that underlies our world - the place from which we dream.
In this
work it is my intent to open the awareness of my audience to these
realms. Making a conscious request to the Universe I ask to open
a portal through my images into this dream state and provide a
gateway to a place that challenges our concept of what is real;
a place of connection to that state of consciousness where we
are no longer alone but connected to a vast and wondrous magical
world of possibility.
During the summer of 2006 I studied Plant Spirit Healing as an
apprentice with Pam Montgomery. This choice was made with the
desire to further open my connection to the natural world. Having
already studied herbs for 3 years, with an English woman's love
of gardening and a commitment to co-create with Nature, I entered
Pam's magical garden with an intent to explore the possibility
of creating images that would further my connections to Plant
Spirits. My images in this book were all created during that period
of time.
A schedule
of exhibitions of my limited edition archival prints, multi-media
installations, holographic works and my new website address can
be obtained by contacting me at llaw@hvc.rr.com.
Linda E. Law
Kingston, New York, March 2007
"Every
breath is a giveaway between you
and the plants. Breathe this in. Plant spirit healing
vibrates like a
harp string, shimmers like a spider web, and is
destined to be a warp thread in the re-weaving
of the healing cloak of the Ancients."
Susun Weed
Excerpt
from Chapter 7...Plant Spirit Healing
The south
winds blow, warming the earth and carrying the robins back to
hungrily look for bugs and worms thawing in their earthen homes.
I watch as the robins scurry here and there. Some begin to pick
up twigs to begin their nest building, preparing for the time
when they will sit for long hours patiently waiting for the crack
in the egg, the emergence of a scrawny long-necked baby whose
mouth is nearly as big as the rest of its body, only to begin
the scurrying all over again to fill those wide-open caverns.
I continue with my task at hand, tapping the Maple tree in order
to drink the best spring tonic of all, the sap. The first few
drips clang into my bucket and then form a continual stream; it
will be a good run today. I place my tongue at the hole in the
tree, drinking the sap as if I were suckling at the breast of
a great mother. The lifeblood fills my body with the sweet essence
of Maple—it’s invigorating and returns vitality to
my sluggish winter-mode cells. Here in this blessed moment, I
am integrally connected to Maple with her sap giving me new life,
new vigor to begin again the cycle of the growing season. I notice
the swelling in my heart and the tears forming in my eyes at the
incredible gift Maple is giving me. The sap opens a floodgate
in my heart, and my “indigenous soul” pours through,
remembering that spirit is the fabric from which the cloak of
life is made and love is the thread that weaves it all together.
Journal
Entry, March 2006
 The
last forty years has seen a continual rise in people’s interest
in traditional cultures that engage with the unseen forces of
nature and the spirit beings that inhabit the dreamtime dimension.
This fascination with what is called shamanism is occurring in
the Western world and seems to be a response to our malnourished
spirits that long for connection with the greater web of life
and the meaning that comes from that connection. This movement
toward spirit perhaps is an evolutionary one or maybe it is a
return to our birthright. Our very DNA has encoded in it a memory
of a time when we all lived close to spirit and its individual
manifestations. This form of shamanism, in which we all have access
to spirit in our everyday lives, is what Eliot Cowan, author of
Plant Spirit Medicine, refers to as “household
shamanism.” This is not an appropriation of an indigenous
culture’s customs or beliefs but rather is a natural progression
of human evolution to live within a spiritual ecology. People
working and living in this way are not shamans but instead are
those who practice in a shamanic way. This understanding of the
term “shamanic” recognizes spirit as the unified whole
while engaging with the unique individual expressions of the spirits.
This way of working with spirit is not a system of faith or a
religion but is based on one’s personal experience with
the spirits. Even shamans of the Ulchi, who are from the Amur
River area of Siberia, the area popularly regarded as the birthplace
of shamanism, are instructed directly from the spirits. As Roberta
Louis tells us in her article published in the magazine Shaman’s
Drum, “Once a person is selected by the spirits to
be a shaman, the spirits themselves provide the bulk of the training.
Each shaman has his or her own helpers, and it is those helping
spirits that—through dreams or auditory messages—teach
the shaman how to play the drum, what songs to sing, and how to
heal.”
One of my
interns, Wendy, had an experience with Striped Maple during which
she was given clear instructions on how to scan a person’s
energy by superimposing a Striped Maple leaf over their body.
The veins in the leaf would correspond to the energy meridians,
and, where the energy needed to be cleared, a red dot would appear.
She would then ask Striped Maple to remove the energy blockage,
which was then taken and stored in the bark of the tree. Interestingly,
she initially was given a ruby ring from the spirit of Striped
Maple and, while visualizing this ring, she called on the spirit
of Striped Maple. This is an example of the tree spirit teaching
her how to call him in, how to track the energy, and how to remove
the energy blockage not unlike, perhaps, how Siberian shamans
were instructed by their spirit helpers.
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"Pam
Montgomery is a true co-creator and partner with our sweet Lady
Gaia. Her words will inspire you to accept the responsibility
and reap the rewards of this partnership for yourself. We have,
up to now, acted as needy, greedy children of an all-giving Mother
Earth. It is vital to the continuance of human life on earth to
now accept our partnership with Gaia. I highly recommend Partner
Earth; A Spiritual Ecology as a guide to begin this partnership."
Brooke Medicine-Eagle author of Buffalo Woman Comes Singing and
The Last Ghost Dance
"Well
written and thought provoking, Partner Earth challenges our usual
perception of 'earth as mother' and, by doing so, expands our
concepts of health and healing. Chocked full of eclectic healing
wisdom and punctuated by the author's personal experieinces, I
found this book not only eminently practical, but deeply inspiring.
A good stimulating read in preparation for a new millenium."
Rosemary
Gladstar
author of Herbal Healing for Women
"Pam
Montgomery's stories will inspire anyone seeking a closer connection
with nature." Eliot Cowan author of Plant Spirit Medicine
"What
a joy Pam has written of her experiences, sharing with us her
intuitive, zany, profound, and highly effective approach to living
co-creatively with the environment. If we have any hope of healing
ourselves from the devastation of the 20th century, it lies with
strategies like those outlined in Partner Earth, that point us
toward an ecstatic return to our ancient interconnectedness with
Nature."
Vicki
Noble
co-creator of Motherpeace Tarot author of Motherpeace: A Way to
the Goddess
Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World
"I've
just finished reading Partner Earth
for the 2nd time. I was surprised at how much I have incorporated
your concept of Earth as partner rather than parent since I first
read it 2 years ago. And this reading allowed me to see that it
is okay for me to think of Earth as my 'true mother' as well as
partner - just as it is okay for Native Americans to keep songs
referring to Mother Earth. And as I became a friend and partner,
as well as a daughter, to my own mother." Victoria
Weber, May 2007
"My daughter
and I just finished reading Partner Earth - neither of us could
put it down until we were finished. What a wonderful gift you
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