Meanwhile, there seems to be five and across all ideological camps, the demand for a circumspect approach to nature to be heard before twelve for Mother Gaia. Usually it is a version of technocracy "light", which is touted as notbremsenartig. Alternative to this mass, usually rather superficial understanding without the proper succession of rational agency, there was and is a long tradition of people around the world to the environment were either never alienated or be aware of their access to flora and fauna have again developed.
in particular the cultures in which professional intermediaries between man and the spiritual Dimension of nature go about their task, aware of the needs of plants and animals yet. The ability to make the plant for partners to learn from it to grow with their help and to heal, this ability is the outstanding book by Wolf-Dieter Storl dedicated, now appeared already in its fourth edition.
The cultural anthropologist and ethnobotanist living as a freelance writer and seminar leader in the Allgäu, after having taught at various universities in the U.S., India and Europe. He devoted a considerable number of his books so far the plants.
This employment over the years is the entire work of striking if Storl virtuosity with stories and juggles stories from different parts of the world and different times entertaining and informative.
As slightly older examples are there for an alternative use of the plants being the wonders of Scotland's Findhorn gardens and Swiss Aigun Verdes. Whether it was the painting of the garden houses with gods, elves, dwarves or similar nature, the direct media contact with Pflanzendevas or the strange specimens using rock crystals or in animal bodies wrapped herbs that were placed in the earth: Both places are for an agricultural utilization actually totally inappropriate and plants at both sites were in number, size and vitality can be concluded that the experts' mouths were open. These examples are living evidence of a potential in dealing with plants, resulting from a collaboration with the plants being. could be an important part of recent human cultural history, "subdue the earth," differ, making this a fruitful partnership between humans and plants, or school. In these examples
figure "only" as a starting point for the monograph, the dance is so then opened. The reader can be prepared for a fun Domestizierungsgeschichte the human race from the perspective of Pflanzendevas and expect him knowledgeable and sketchy Introductions to the review by visionaries like Maria Treben, Edward Bach, or Rudolf Steiner, who were in direct contact with the green people.
with particular interest is the author of the pre-and non-Christian traditions to their plant knowledge. Germanic, Celtic, Indian and Indian ways of communicating and working with the plants being would have to call there to reach out to a few traditions, the Wolf-Dieter Storl studied and which part of the overall view in this book. Much of his knowledge, which is not modified significantly by the anecdotal style, could acquire Storl in personal exchange. So it came as such during his time in the United States encounters with the Indian medicine man Bill Tallbull, the Storl the importance of imported European plants brought closer, as he was instructed on the local fauna and the traditional use of this.
addition to the inspired and inspiring content of the stories, it is especially the kind of storytelling that makes it a pity if the last pages of the book are achieved slowly, even if they finish with instructions on how to own the meditative approach to the Pflanzendevas yet a climax.
The book is in a class by himself, and as prophecy, not the responsibility of reviewers must be to be the work of the other conditions simply because of great demand desired.