A Guide to Understanding Healing Plants – Vol. I

A Guide to Understanding Healing Plants – Vol. I
By Jochen Bockemühl
Mercury Press, 2011
Paperback; ISBN 978-0-936132-27-3; 184 pages; $32

This comprehensive work is for those who wish to undertake a rigorous phenomenological, experiential study of the qualities of healing plants.

Volume I: Contents
Foreword
Introduction
I. Changing Knowledge of Substances in Healing Plants
II. Unconscious Connections of Man and Animals with Substances
III. Developing the Perceptual Capacity of Thinking
IV. Contemplating Metamorphosis as ‘Grasping the Spiritual with the Soul’
V. Substance Formation and its Perception at Various Levels
VI. Effects of Natural Substances on Human Beings – Form, Color, Smell, Taste, Composition
VII. Health and Disease Considered from the Viewpoint of a Direct Meeting with a Person
VIII. Two Examples of Plant Observation: Yarrow and Chamomile
Appendix