Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness »

Pam Montgomery has been investigating plants and their intelligent spiritual nature since 1986. She is a founding member of the Northeast Herbal Association and is on the Advisory Board of United Plant Savers. The author of Partner Earth: A Spiritual Ecology and contributing author in Planting the Future, she is a practicing herbalist and plant spirit healer who offers trainings and treatments from her home in Danby, Vermont.

Stephen Harrod Buhner is an Earth poet and the award-winning author of ten books on nature, indigenous cultures, the environment, and herbal medicine. He comes from a long line of healers including Leroy Burney, Surgeon General of the United States under Eisenhower and Kennedy, and Elizabeth Lusterheide, a midwife and herbalist who worked in rural Indiana in the early nineteenth century. The greatest influence on his work, however, has been his great-grandfather C.G. Harrod who primarily used botanical medicines, also in rural Indiana, when he began his work as a physician in 1911.

Stephen's work has appeared or been profiled in publications throughout North America and Europe including Common Boundary, Apotheosis, Shaman's Drum, The New York Times, CNN, and Good Morning America.

Herbalist Pam Montgomery’s triple spiral path--working through the heart to connect with the soul and gain access to the spirit--is a hands-on approach to partnering with plant spirits that promotes a profound healing, one that moves beyond mere symptomatic treatment into aligning us with the vast web of nature.

Rutland Herald

"You've heard of gardeners talking to their plants to help them grow. What about letting plants talk to us? . . . Montgomery explores the many avenues for gaining information and insight from the plant world . . . "

Foreword: Reclaiming the Invisible   Stephen Harrod Buhner     ix
Acknowledgments     xvii
Introduction     1
The Theoretical Basis for Plant Spirit Healing
Spiritual Ecology     8
The Essential Nature of Plants     19
The Triple Spiral Path     33
The Heart of the Matter     40
The Connecting Link-Our Soul     49
Spirit Healing     57
The Practical Application of Plant Spirit Healing
The Dreamtime of Plants     68
Building Relationships with Plants     82
Healing Oneself, Others, and the Planet with Plant Spirits     103
Building Personal Power     113
Foundational Healing Modalities     129
Origins of Dis-ease and the Therapeutic Use of Plant Spirits     155
The Healing Gifts of Plants
Plant Allies     180
Epilogue     209
Bibliography     212
About the Author     215
Index     216