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| Wild Enchantments: Let Plants Be Our Teachers |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-30-2024, 10:14 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices
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"A NEW book opens the door on how plants can help us to better understand the world. Wild Enchantments: Let Plants Be Our Teachers blends the insights of Stroud herbalist Nathaniel Hughes with the paintings of Fiona Owen, who also lived in Stroud for many decades. Complete with a set of plant wisdom oracle cards, the book invites readers to learn from plants, offering a radical and immersive approach to herbalism and plant connection and a doorway to self-awareness, healing and interrelation with all life... Fiona has created paintings, intricately gilded with gold leaf and layered with alchemical symbolism and sacred geometry. Introducing readers to 33 plants in turn, the book explores their qualities and invitations, sharing tips and techniques for meeting each plant, and working with them ritually, and safely."
Complete with a set of plant wisdom oracle cards.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/inspired-wisdo...00368.html
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| Fiction: The Lady of the Tower |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-30-2024, 10:10 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices
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"In the shadow of impenetrable stone walls and its fearful reputation of torture and imprisonment, life inside the Tower of London was far from ordinary. But for one remarkable woman in the 17th century, the Tower wasn’t just a fortress—it was home, hospital, laboratory, and sanctuary. Elizabeth St. John's novel The Lady of the Tower brings to life the incredible story of Lady Lucy Apsley, who lived, worked, and raised a family within these forbidding walls for thirteen years. One of the Tower’s most famous prisoners during this period was Sir Walter Raleigh. Imprisoned for treason, Raleigh spent much of his time experimenting with alchemy – in Lady Apsley’s henhouse. The “Lady of the Tower” was intrigued by Raleigh’s work and encouraged his pursuit of the philosopher’s stone—not just as a quest for gold, but as a way to unlock deeper medical truths. The blending of alchemical experimentation with practical healing was a reflection of the Renaissance spirit of inquiry, where boundaries between disciplines blurred, and new knowledge emerged from unlikely sources."
https://www.elizabethjstjohn.com/updates...of-london/
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| Video: Who was the First American Occultist? |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-30-2024, 09:56 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"John Winthrop the Younger was a pioneering early Governor of the Connecticut Colony but also deeply learned in the occult philosophy, alchemy and Paracelsian Spagyric Medicine. So much so that he may well be regarded as the first true occultist in the American colonies. Cotton Mather even dubbed Winthrop "Hermes Christianus - the Christian Hermes." Taking with him books that once belonged to Dr. John Dee, a vast alchemical lab and deep knowledge of European Esotericism, Winthrop would attempt to create a Pansophist research institution in colonial America. He would also become famous for his medical practice before using his knowledge of the occult philosophy to greatly stall colonial Witch Hunts. And, as part of the "Alchemical Republic" - the first colonial member of the Royal Society - he would direct import Western Esotericism into America."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heqdXS4F0Xs
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