NOTES
Preface
1. Eliot Cowan, Plant Spirit Medicine: The Healing Power of Plants (Columbus, N.C.: Granite Publishing, 1991).
Introduction
1. Source: http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/la-me-winesmog, August 22, 2005.
2. Masanobu Fukuoka, The Road Back to Nature: Regaining the Paradise Lost (Japan Publications, 1987). Quoted in Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature (Rochester, Vt.: Bear & Company, 2004).
Chapter 1. Nothing Is Hidden: How Plants Heal
1. See, for example, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Paracelsus: Essential Readings (Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, 1999).
2. Thomas Bartram, Bartram’s Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine: The Definitive Guide to the Herbal Treatment of Diseases (London: Robinson Publishing, 1998).
3. See, for example, James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (London: Oxford University Press, 2000).
4. James Lovelock, “The Earth Is About To Catch A Morbid Fever That May Last As Long As 100,000 Years,” London, The Independent, 16 January 2006.
5. Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough: The Roots of Religion and Folklore (London: Penguin Books, 1996). This book was originally published in 1890 in two volumes as The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion.
6. Frank J. Lipp, PhD, Herbalism: Healing and Harmony, Symbolism, Ritual and Folklore Traditions of East and West (London: Duncan Baird Publishers, 1996).
7. Ibid.
8. Michele Peterson, “Bewitched in Bolivia,” London, The Globe and Mail, Saturday, 30 October 2004, p. T7. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20041030/BOLIVIA30/TPTravel/
9. Lovelock, “The Earth Is About To Catch A Morbid Fever That May Last As Long As 100,000 Years.”
10. Marie-Louise Von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales (Boston: Shambhala, 1996).
11. Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, The Secret Life of Plants (New York: HarperCollins, 1973).
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. In Kay C. Whittaker, The Reluctant Shaman: A Woman’s First Encounters with the Unseen Spirits of the Earth (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991).
15. In Tompkins and Bird, The Secret Life of Plants.
16. Alfred Vogel, The Nature Doctor: A Manual of Traditional and Complementary Medicine (New Canaan, Conn.: Keats Publishing, 1991).
17. Jeremy Narby, Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry into Knowledge (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2005).
Chapter 2. The Shaman’s Diet: Listening to the Plants
1. Richard E. Schultes and Michael Winkelman, “The Principle American Hallucinogenic Plants and their Bioactive and Therapeutic Properties.” In Michael Winkelman and Walter Andritzky, eds., Yearbook of Cross-Cultural Medicine and Psychotherapy (VWM—Verlag fur Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1995).
2. John Michell, Confessions of a Radical Traditionalist (Waterbury Center, Vt.: Dominion Press, 2005).
3. In John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1932).
4. Michael Harner, The Jivaro: People of the Sacred Waterfalls (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).
5. Maria Sabina, Maria Sabina and Her Mazatec Mushroom Velada (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974).
6. Thomas Bartram, Bartram’s Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine.
7. For more on Rivas and his work, see Jaya Bear, Amazon Magic: The Life Story of Ayahuasquero and Shaman Don Agustin Rivas Vasquez (El Prado, New Mexico: Colibri Publishing, 2000).
Chapter 3. Plants of Vision: Sacred Hallucinogens
1. See, for example, Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge, A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution (New York: Bantam Books, 1993).
2. Rita Carter, Mapping the Mind (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
3. Jeremy Narby, The Cosmic Serpent (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1999).
4. Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation (Novato, Calif.: New World Library, 2004).
5. Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods.
6. Richard Evans Schultes, Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers (Rochester, Vt.: Healing Arts Press, 2001).
7. Ibid.
8. Bill Hicks, in Love All The People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines, edited by John Lahr (London: Constable & Robinson, 2004).
9. A good introduction to Lilly’s work is his book, The Center of the Cyclone (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1985). A practical analysis of his work also appears in: Ross Heaven, The Journey To You (New York: Bantam Press, 2001), and for further exploration of sensory deprivation and the shamanic effects of time spent in darkness, see: Ross Heaven, Darkness Visible (Rochester, Vt.: Destiny Books, 2005).
10. Katy Weitz, “Stressed out? Put on a blindfold for 72 hours,” London, The Observer, 5 June 2005.
Chapter 4. Healing the Soul
1. Malidoma Somé, Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman (New York: Penguin Books, 1995).
2. Martin Prechtel, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar: Memoirs from the Living Heart of a Mayan Village (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1999).
3. Michael Harner, The Way of the Shaman (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1990).
4. Sandra Ingerman, Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self Through Shamanic Practice (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991).
5. Ibid.
6. Stanley Krippner and Alberto Villoldo, The Realms of Healing (Berkeley, Calif: Celestial Arts, 1987).
7. See Spirit in the City by Ross Heaven (New York: Bantam Press, 2002).
8. Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (New York: McPherson, 1983).
9. Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God, from the Primitive Mythology volume (New York, Penguin Books, 1991).
10. Carl G. Jung, Mysterium Conjunctionis (Paris: Albin Michel, 1989).
11. Originally published in Pravda, March 12, 2005. Reported in “A Hearty Afterlife,” Fortean Times magazine, issue 197, June, 2005.
12. Mexican Teachings: Plant Spirits in Ceremony, author unknown, at the Web site www.dpw.wageningen-ur.nl.
13. In Thomas Bartram, Bartram’s Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine.
Chapter 5. Pusangas and Perfumes: Aromas for Love and Wholeness
1. Ilza Veith, trans., The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).
2. David Hoffman, Welsh Herbal Medicine (Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales: Abercastle Publications, 1978).
3. The Practice of Aromatherapy was reprinted by Healing Arts Press, Rochester, Vt., in 1982.
Chapter 6. Floral Baths: Bathing in Nature’s Riches
1. David Hoffmann, Welsh Herbal Medicine.
2. Nadine Epstein, “A Maya Spiritual Bath that Heals a Child’s Nightmares.” Mothering magazine, 1989. Online at www.mothering.com/articles/new_baby/sleep/epstein.
3. Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough.
4. Michio Kaku, Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension (New York: Anchor Books, 1995).
5. Jeremy Narby, PhD, Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry into Knowledge (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2005).
6. Ibid.
7. Morwyn, Magic from Brazil: Recipes, Spells and Rituals (St. Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn Publications, 2001).
8. Ibid.
9. Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust (London: Rider/Random House, 1992).
10. Max Beauvoir, writing on the Web site http://www.vodou.org/treatmen1.htm.
11. Ibid.
12. Cambridge Relativity Web site: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/index.html.
13. Ibid.
14. Fred Alan Wolf, PhD, The Dreaming Universe (New York: Touchstone, 1995).
15. Zora Neale Hurston, Tell My Horse (New York: Harper and Row, 1996).
Chapter 7. The Scream of the Mandrake
1. Patrick Logan, Irish Folk Medicine (London: Appletree Press, 1999).
2. Ibid.
3. Jeremy Laurance, “Why This Exotic Fruit Is the World’s Only Weapon against Bird Flu,” London, The Independent, 15 October 2005.
4. Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About (Worcester, U.K.: Alliance Publishing, 2005).
5. Jerome Burne, “Turn Over a New Leaf,” London, The Independent, 10 May 2005.
6. As reported in a news story at www.yahoo.com, July 2005.
7. Jerome Burne, “Turn Over a New Leaf.”
8. Ibid.
9. Luis Eduardo Luna and Pablo Amaringo, Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman (Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, 1993).
10. Ibid.
11. Patrick Logan, Irish Folk Medicine.