Author Description

This is a trailblazing book that explores an old way of healing through the spirit of plants. When the traditional Shaman-healer turns to the plant world, he turns to the spirits. Plant spirits cure his patients. Spirits are his teachers, friends & allies. This ancient practice of plant spirit medicine, long forgotten in the West, has now been remembered, revitalized & reintroduced by the American healer, Eliot Cowan. As an apprentice to Don Guadalupe Gonzalez Rios, a Huichol Indian shaman, Eliot Cowan learned that it wasn't the plant that healed a person, but the spirit in the plant. Learning to contact the spirit of the plant was to ask it directly to heal the person. To give the person in need of healing a tincture of the herb was to give the person contact with the spirit of the plant & direct access to its grace & healing gift. This book opens the reader to the real & ancient world of contact with plant spirits, how to make that contact for oneself as well as wonderful stories of Indian shaman healers & their respect & alliance with plant spirits. Swan * Raven & Company, P.O. Box 726, Newburg, OR 97132. 800-366-0264.