Comments on: Herbalism in the Space Age

By: Renée A.D.

Renée A.D. — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:59:37 +0000

Ann I’m really glad you came on and read it! I’m really glad that you’re helping move this conversation forward with projects like Numen. I was really inspired by it.

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:59:57 +0000

“being an herbalist is just as much about facilitating this kind of conversation as much as it’s about crafting medicines and seeing folks.”
Agreed – great blog, glad to have found it!

By: Renée A.D.

Renée A.D. — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:42:40 +0000

‘I guess I feel like my work, here and now, is to a. put every fiber of my being into living life and connecting to the world around me, and b. maybe teach others how to do the same.’

I think that’s really beautiful–and yeah, I believe that work of reconnection is really critical right now. When I think of what is really needed in our world, it’s harmony and connection. When we’re connected, then we can make responsible decisions as a whole that takes into account the whole system. We can get outside our own heads and be grounded in reality.

I guess in that sense, being an herbalist is just as much about facilitating this kind of conversation as much as it’s about crafting medicines and seeing folks–my 2 cents.

By: rebecca

rebecca — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:09:40 +0000

Honestly, as a species I think we’ll do well to avoid extinction… it’s sheer cockiness to assume that we can fix the earth or move ourselves to another planet- we’re just not that important in the grand scheme of things, I mean, life has been around for billions of years, and will continue on without us. Which isn’t to say that I want this to happen- I don’t think that humanity is a plague- I think we’re capable of SO much, so much beauty, art, emotions, words, creation…

But the earth could wipe us out very easily, very fast. I guess I feel like my work, here and now, is to a. put every fiber of my being into living life and connecting to the world around me, and b. maybe teach others how to do the same. What direction that will have us take at a crossroads, I don’t know, though…