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Plant Spirit Medicine: Medicine
for the Soul
Plant Spirit Medicine of the
Amazonian Rainforest
by Howard G. Charing and Peter Cloudsley
‘Whether the plant is to
heal the body or the spirit or whether it is part of an
apprenticeship, what makes it work is your good intention towards
the plant. They are beings, which have their own forms or they can
be like human beings with faces and bodies. When the spirit accepts
the person, and the person has the will, the spirit grants them
energy. The path to knowledge opens, and the healing takes
place’
Guillermo Arevalo –
Shipibo Maestro
In the Amazonian tradition
working with planta maestras (teacher plants) is known as the
Shaman’s Diet. The working can be seen as a conscious body of
actions to incorporate the plant spirit into one’s own
spirit. From this incorporation or union, the plant spirit informs
and teaches the maestro or apprentice. They learn the magical
chants (icaros) which invoke the power of the plant, how to use the
plant for healing purposes, and how to strengthen the dieter both
psychologically and physically. The purpose of the diet is to
prepare the body and nervous system for the powerful knowledge and
expansion of consciousness given by teacher plants.
It offers a significant
challenge for the rational Western mind to come to terms with the
teacher plants, and a leap of imagination is required to
incorporate the ‘other’ consciousness, or spirit of the
plant. Plant
Spirit Medicine of the Amazonian Rainforest.
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