THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF PLANTS: THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE HEART IN THE DIRECT PERCEPTION OF NATURE
Book ID/图书代码： 06568004B08603
English Summary/英文概要： All ancient and indigenous peoples insisted their knowledge of plant medicines came from the plants themselves and not through trial and error experimentation. Less well known is that many Western peoples made this same assertion. There are, in fact, two modes of cognition available to all human beings - the brain-based linear and the heart-based holistic. The heart-centred mode of perception can be exceptionally accurate and detailed in its information gathering capacities if, as indigenous and ancient peoples asserted, the heart’s ability as an organ of perception is developed. Steven Harrod Buhner explores this second mode of perception in great detail through the work of numerous remarkable people from Luther Burbank, who cultivated the majority of food plants we now take for granted, to the great German poet and scientist Goethe and his studies of the metamorphosis of plants. Buhner explores the commonalties among these individuals in their approach to learning from the plant world and outlines the specific steps involved.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 要是没有植物神奇威力的话，我们人类大概就无法生存下来了。据估计，地球上植物的数量大约在四十万左右，而其中有相当数量的植物种类还不为人类所知。虽然西方的很多植物学家只识别并分类了这其中一小部分种群，但是我们完全可以说很多西方世界的科学家所声称的未知植物其实并不是未知的，居住在茂密的植物丛林的自然环境中的土著人民就非常了解这些植物。
无论是古人还是土著人民，在他们看来他们了解草药不是通过什么试验再更正的方法而纯粹就靠植物本身传递的讯息。更不寻常的是，这些植物所传递的教义恰恰为现代医学和以植物为原料的食品业奠定了扎实的基础，激发了很多新发现。
在全世界范围内有这样一种传统，就是透过“心脏的智慧”来直接洞悉大自然。最近神经科学方面取得的很多发现表明在心脏的构造中神经细胞占到了百分之五十的比重。事实上心脏本身就是一个大脑。就像土著人和古人们坚持认为的那样，透过心脏来感悟自然其精确率高的惊人，汲取信息的能力也相当细化。
Stephen Harrod Buhner详细地分析了这样一种以心脏为感悟模式的方法，探究了诸多杰出人士，看看他们是怎样用心灵来观察这个世界的，他们中有亨利·梭罗；路德·伯班克----就是他培植出了我们都不以为然的粮食作物；乔治·华盛顿·卡
佛；日本生态农人Masanobu Fukuoka；德国大诗人科学家歌德----他曾经研究过植物的变异。Buhner告诉读者这些伟大的思想家们是如何运用心脏本身的认知能力来直接感悟大自然的，向我们传授了怎样才可以学会用心灵来感悟自然，而本身就是人类与生俱来的权利。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Stephen Harrod Buhner is an Earth Poet and senior researcher for the Foundation for Gaian Studies. He lectures throughout the United States on herbal medicine, the sacredness of plants, and the intelligence of nature. He is the author of nine works of nonfiction and one book of poetry, including The Secret Teachings of Plants and the award-winning The Lost Language of Plants. He lives in Braintree, Vermont.
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